Re: ANN: The GoodRelations Annotator: How any business can get onto the Web of Data - today!

Hi Martin,

this is brilliant,

my concern however is that the semantic is dropped when you get to what
exactly you sell. I mean you do allow certain predefined categories but then
the description of what you actually sell is left to the text.

It would be cool to allow e.g. links to dbpedia for the kind of things you
sell. I am afraid as it is you get very very close to a great enabling thing
but might be stopping a step shorter? what do you think?

Giovanni

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@unibw.de> wrote:

> Dear all:
>
> We are proud to announce the release of the GoodRelations Annotator, a
> form-based tool that will help any business in the world to create a
> description of its offerings suitable for the Web of Data,
> and that in less than 5 minutes.
>
> The tool is available at
>
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/
>
> It creates a straightforward yet complete description of the key aspects of
> a typical business using the GoodRelations vocabulary and current Semantic
> Web standards.
>
> The resulting RDF/XML file can be either directly published on the
> company's Web site or used as a skeleton for developing a more fine-grained
> description with price information etc.
>
> The work on the tool has been funded by the Oesterreichische
> Forschungsfoerderungsgesellschaft GmbH (FFG) and the Austrian
> Bundesministerium fuer Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie (BMVIT) under the
> myOntology project in the FIT-IT "Semantic Systems" program (contract number
> 812515).
>
> Please help spread the word.
>
> Best wishes
> Martin Hepp
> http://www.heppnetz.de
> http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/
>
> Tool:
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/
>
> GoodRelations Project:
> http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/
>
> Webcast (15 Minutes)
> http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
>
>