Re: Breaking News: Google supports GoodRelations

I am particularly happy about this evolution: this is largely needed for the
semantic web technologies to gain further acceptance! I hope to see more
moves towards this direction by Google.

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Nikolaos Konstantinou, Ph.D.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:09 AM, ProjectParadigm-ICT-Program <
metadataportals@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Martin,
>
> This is indeed very good news! It will now make semantic web technologies
> and linked data a mainstream topic for business seminars!
>
> I predict the following three fields to follow suit: audiovisual content
> (Youtube! the obvious driver for this), open access repositories of academic
> content and publications, and social networking.
>
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> --- On *Tue, 11/2/10, Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com>
> Subject: Breaking News: Google supports GoodRelations
> To: semantic-web@w3.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 6:06 PM
>
>
> 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
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