Re: Breaking News: Google supports GoodRelations

Hi Michael,
Thanks! As far as I know, the DL part of GoodRelations is currently  
not very relevant for Google, but it will simplify the usage of  
GoodRelations in controlled settings where decidable reasoning is a  
requirement.

GoodRelations itself does require just RDFS-style reasoning for  
rdfs:subClassOf and rdfs:subPropertyOf. GR uses a few complex class  
definitions, but those are just for avoiding unwanted inferences based  
on rdfs:domain definitions.

Best
Martin

On 03.11.2010, at 00:24, Michael F Uschold wrote:

> Congratulations Martin, well done.  Very exciting indeed.
>
> On GR being the only DL language picked up by a major search engine.  
> Are they or anyone doing anything with it that is interesting from  
> an inference perspective?  The degenerate case is it is being  
> treated as just another 'dumb' syntax like hProduct. Hopefully if  
> that is true now, at least it will be much easier to migrate to  
> doing something inferentially interesting.
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Martin Hepp <mfhepp@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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* Project Main Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/
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