- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:56:02 +0200
- To: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org
- Cc: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>, Ian Davis <Ian.Davis@talis.com>, Leigh Dodds <leigh.dodds@talis.com>, Mary Ayers <mary.ayers@onetel.net>
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote: > Dear Danny, > > Danny Ayers wrote: >> >> So Kingsley, you know this stuff. OpenLink provides good products. Oh yes. >> >> This is so in your scope, dude...ready? >> >> plug&play out of the box e-commerce solution. >> >> Personally I'd grumble a bit with Martin's modelling, but it is >> usable. The Good Relations vocab is good enough. >> > > Thanks - if you could serialize the grumbling into change requests, that > would help ;-) > > Seriously, any suggestions for improvement are welcome! > > Note that GoodRelations tries to strike a balance between > > a) a clean, reusable conceptual model and > b) ease of creating annotations / populating knowledge bases from existing > sources. > > In case of conflict, a) is more important for GoodRelations than b), because > most transformations will take place in scripts anyway, and for simplifying, > we have several shortcuts like gr:includes now. > > The key goal is that the data can be reused in as many contexts as possible, > so GoodRelations maintains conceptual distinctions that e.g. commerce > microformats don't (for example, product makes and models vs. actual > products). That may be a bit of the burden initially, but will pay out in > the long run. >> >> Front end a la Amazon, back end triples. Linked triples. >> >> > > Exactly. On a massive scale. >> >> Make it so - I reckon it could be a huge earner. >> >> > > I think so ;-) By the way: also for society, because the future wealth of > developed economies will depend on our ability to coordinate the exchange of > highly specific goods and services at much lower costs than today. Note that > there is economic evidence that 50% of the US GDP goes into maintaining the > infrastructure and institutions for exchange and trade. I found a nice ebook documenting this finding: http://books.google.com/books?id=_SQh-KxeVW8C&pg=PA95&dq=Long-Term+Factors+in+American+Economic+Growth&hl=en&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=6#v=onepage&q=&f=false > > See > "The World Wide Web and the Wealth of Nations: Does IT Matter?" > http://tr.im/inaugurallecture >> >> Cheers, >> Danny. >> >> > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------- > martin hepp > e-business & web science research group > universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen > > e-mail: mhepp@computer.org > phone: +49-(0)89-6004-4217 > fax: +49-(0)89-6004-4620 > www: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group) > http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal) > skype: mfhepp twitter: mfhepp > > Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data! > ================================================================= > > Webcast: > http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/ > > Recipe for Yahoo SearcMonkey: > http://tr.im/rAbN > > Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009: "Semantic Web-based > E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology" > http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp > > Overview article on Semantic Universe: > http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe > > Project page: > http://purl.org/goodrelations/ > > Resources for developers: > http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations > > Tutorial materials: > CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on > Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey > http://tr.im/grcec09 > >
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