- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 19:44:53 +0100
- To: Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-lod@w3.org
Whow! Congrats!! On 2 November 2010 19:07, Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all: > > Breaking News: Google has just started to recommend using the GoodRelations > vocabulary for product and price information in Web pages! > > See > > http://www.heppresearch.com/gr4google > > > This is a major - if not the critical - step towards massive adoption of > RDF, because there is now a clear incentive for any site owner in the world > to add rich meta-data in RDFa to her or his page templates. It is also, to > my knowledge, the first OWL DL vocabulary adopted by a major search engine. > > It is safe to assume that additional GoodRelations elements, not currently > relevant for Rich Snippets, and RDF features currently not required by > Google (e.g. datatype information), will not irritate Google's processing of > RDFa markup, so you can cater for Google and the Web of Linked Data in one > turn if you follow the recipe from my page given above. > > I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the many individuals > who supported my work on GoodRelations in one way or another over the past > years, namely Andreas Radinger, Alex Stolz, Uwe Stoll, Kavi Goel, Kingsley > Idehen, Jay Myers, Peter Mika, Stephan Decker, Jamie Taylor, Andreas Harth, > Aldo Bucchi, Giovanni Tummarello, Richard Cyganiak, Jon Udell, Daniel > Bingel, Markus Linder, Martin Schliefnig, Andreas Wechselberger, Leyla Jael > Garcia, and many others. All of them have provided valuable suggestions and > feedback, encouragement, or both. > > This is a great day for the Semantic Web and Linked Data. Now please spread > the word! > > Best wishes > > Martin Hepp > > ----------------------------------------- > Hepp Research GmbH > Karlstraße 8 > D-88212 Ravensburg, Germany > Phone +49 751 205 8512 > Fax +49 3212 1020296 > > Web http://www.heppresearch.com/ > eMail contact@heppresearch.com > Twitter heppresearch > Skype heppresearch > > UStID: DE268 362 852 > Amtsgericht Ulm, HRB 724378 > Geschäftsführer: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp >
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