ANN: New GoodRelations and Generic RDF/RDFa Tools

(Apologies for cross-posting)

Dear all:

In the past year, we released a lot of tools in the context of the
GoodRelations vocabulary (http://purl.org/goodrelations/) that may be of
wider interest. All tools are available on-line and most are also
released as sourcecode under LPGL.

1. Generic Tools

a) RDF2DataRSS:
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Yahoo accepts RDF only as either RDFa embedded into existing Web pages
or via their proprietary DataRSS feed format. The RDF2DataRSS tool turns
any RDF data submitted as RDF/XML or Turtle/N3 into such Yahoo feeds and
can be used to submit RDF/XML into Yahoo's SearchMonkey index.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/rdf2datarss/

b) RDF2RDFa converter:
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This tool creates handy snippets of invisible RDFa from RDF/XML content
such that the RDF can be pasted easily into any existing page without
hard-wiring it with the HTML page mark-up.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/rdf2rdfa/

2. Tools for Creating GoodRelations Data

a) Google Product Feed Converter:
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Many shops are already exposing their product and price information in
one of the proprietary Google feed formats (RSS 1.0, 2.0 / CSV-based).
With our tool, you can generate GoodRelations RDF/XML data from that
data. That can be particularly interesting for adding RDF export to
existing shops easily.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/google-product-feed-converter/

b) BMEcat2GoodRelations converter:
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BMEcat is a popular XML Schema Definition (and DTD) for exchanging
catalog data between enterprises in B2B settings. Many PIM, shop, and
ERP software packages can create BMEcat XML documents. This tool
transforms a BMEcat catalog into a GoodRelations-variant in RDF/XML.
It can reuse / preserve more features than any other tool.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/bmecat2goodrelations/

By the way, a free tool for creating BMEcat catalogs is at
http://www.eclass.de/user/software/democat_2_0.zip (in German only,
unfortunately).

c) GoodRelations Annotator:
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A straightforward form-based Web application that creates a detailed
company / business profile in RDFa and RDF/XML.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-annotator/

d) Plug-ins / Extensions for Shop Software:
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    * osCommerce Shop Software:
      http://code.google.com/p/goodrelations-for-oscommerce/

    * Joomla/Virtuemart CMS/Shop combo:
      http://code.google.com/p/goodrelations-for-joomla/

    * Magento shop software:
      Contact Uwe Stoll, http://www.semantium.de/ (demo shop at
http://www.la-mousson.de/)

3. GoodRelations-compliant Domain Ontologies for Vertical Industries

a) ClassOWL 5.1.4 Products and Services Ontology
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    * OWL or HTML: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/eclass/5.1.4/
      (Warning: The file is very large - 38.3 MB for RDF/XML and 71.8 MB
for HTML):

    * ZIP: OWL+HTML:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/eclass/5.1.4/eclass_514en.zip
      (eClassOWL 5.1.4 ontology and documentation, compressed  - OWL +
HTML, zip, 4.7 MB):

b) freeClassOWL - Ontology of Construction and Building Materials
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    * http://www.freeclass.eu/freeclass_v1
      (add .html / .owl if content negotiation should fail)

c) Consumer Electronics Ontology (CEO)
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    * http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/ontologies/consumerelectronics/v1
      (add .html / .owl if content negotiation should fail)

3. Applications for Inspecting and Consuming GoodRelations Data

a) iGoogr: "Imagine Google was using the GoodRelations vocabulary for
e-commerce"
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A quick demo of how Google search results could be improved by
GoodRelations meta-data; also useful for inspecting your own page,
because it fetches and parses RDFa in real-time.

http://igoogr.appspot.com/

b) GoodRelations Statistics
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A tool that collects and exposes detailed data on the popularity of
GoodRelations elements in the wild (with RDFa export of the stats!).

http://goodrelations-stats.appspot.com/

c) GoodRelations Validator (alpha)
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A tool that spots semantic inconsistencies in GoodRelations data beyond
the axioms of the ontology.

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/goodrelations-validator/

Much more is on our agenda for 2010, so please stay tuned by
    * bookmarking http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations and
    * subscribing to
http://ebusiness-unibw.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/goodrelations .

Best wishes

Martin Hepp

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martin hepp
e-business & web science research group
universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen

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Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
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Project page:
http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Resources for developers:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

Webcasts:
Overview - http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
How-to   - http://vimeo.com/7583816

Recipe for Yahoo SearchMonkey:
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey

Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
"Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
http://www.slideshare.net/mhepp/semantic-webbased-ecommerce-the-goodrelations-ontology-1535287

Overview article on Semantic Universe:
http://www.semanticuniverse.com/articles-semantic-web-based-e-commerce-webmasters-get-ready.html

Tutorial materials:
ISWC 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce in Brief: A Hands-on 
Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Web_of_Data_for_E-Commerce_Tutorial_ISWC2009

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