eCommerce Use Case for Open Data [via Open Data Directory Community Group]

I have been affiliated with eCommerce industry for 10+ years and have been part
of development of datafeeds/rss for exchanging data for several companies
including Amazon and now for our current eCommerce venture, Shimply.

There are two major problems that Open Data can solve -

1) Availability of correct and relevant information to consumer globally

2) Reduction in man hours/bandwidth consumption across the industry in
maintaining a clean database with relevant information

Whether it's publishers who want to distribute their books or, any brand that
want to sell their products, they all try their best to provide accurate and
complete information to their direct point of contacts. However, due to lack of
will/technical aptitude/laziness, that information is lost on the way to various
consumer facing sites.

Openlibrary is an initiative in this regard but seems like it has been
discontinued. There are many other incarnations in at least books space but
there are very few in other domains. Seems like even public databases of UPC
codes don't have complete information on the product itself.

I will like to request other members of the group to pitch in with their
ideas/if this matches their area of interest. I am more than willing to
contribute data (17.5 million products information)/engg effort to make this a
reality.

Let me know.

 

 



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