Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

Hi Leigh,

Thanks for your feedback.

rdfs:seeAlso is defined as a property that "specifies a resource that 
might provide additional information about the subject resource."

So I would say using it to link from a pure data element (e.g. a price 
specification node, a warranty promise, a product, or an offer) to the 
Web page that describes all of them in one page is in compliance with 
the RDFS spec. (Note that this also allows pointers from any such 
element to hash URIs in a human-readable document - with that, users 
could directly jump e.g. to the warranty section of the page.)

Your suggestion of using

http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_isPrimaryTopicOf

instead is a viable option, but I decided against it as the default 
property for two reasons:

1. First, I did not want to force people to import and use foaf only for 
this very basic link, in particular as long as a suitable property from 
the core RDFS vocabulary is available.

2. The status of this property is "testing" only.

But is perfectly fine for anybody to attach additional

term_isPrimaryTopicOf

properties to any conceptual element in GoodRelations data.

Martin

> Hi,
>
> 2009/9/1 Martin Hepp (UniBW) <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
>   
>> Now, as for human-readable content: Each RDF/XML representation links to the proper human-readable representation via rdfs:seeAlso, e.g. to
>>
>>     
> Setting aside the discussion of 303, I'm not sure that rdfs:seeAlso is
> the best property to use here. IMHO, rdfs:seeAlso works best for the
> "RDF hyperlinking" that FOAF encouraged. I still tend to use it in
> that form.
>
> Typically when I'm pointing from RDF to a human-readable page then I
> usually use one of the foaf "topic" properties. foaf:isPrimaryTopic of
> would seem to fit here:
>
> http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_isPrimaryTopicOf
>
> I also think its more useful for agents that are looking for
> human-readable pages.
>
>   

> Cheers,
>
> L.
>   
> Leigh Dodds
> Programme Manager, Talis Platform
> Talis
> leigh.dodds@talis.com
> http://www.talis.com
>
>   

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