Re: GoodRelations for publishing data

Thank you very much for the fast replies. Of course, selling third part 
producs on a e-commerce requires an agremment between the manufacturer 
and the shop service, but my question was a bit more technical. 
Actually, to publish an offer on sears you have to provide a product 
description in sears-specific format (on a text file). May be that this 
step is no more necessary if you provide the product description using 
the GoodRelations vocabulary? From your reply, I suppose that the answer 
to this question is NO.

CL

On 12/02/2014 15:12, martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org wrote:
> Dear Cristiano:
> Thanks for your email. The answer is no - I do not know of any e-commerce portal that crawls and aggregates product / offer information from anonymous sites and provides a “meta shopping cart”.
>
> What is happening / will be happening is that if product model master data (like technical specifications / data sheets) are marked up with schema.org/GoodRelations, major search engines and other consumers of markup will likely use those to augment offer data from individual shops, based on strong product identifiers.
>
> For offers, I do not expect a lot of content syndication into “meta shopping carts”, mainly for legal reasons - the paradigm of offering some else’s offers implies legal and business risk, so there will always be a kind of sign-on process for participating merchants. You can also see that most price comparison engines now require a legal agreement from merchants prior to relaying their feeds.
>
> For product model data from manufacturer sites, on the contrary, I expect a lot impact of publishing data about features and maybe media materials. Many applications will use those to augment offer data from a single site (e.g. Sony publishes the full data sheet, a shop publishes just a short text and UOC/EAN/GTIN-13 code —> Google/Bing/Yahoo/Yandex will show data sheet and offer side-by-side),
>
> Martin
>
> On 12 Feb 2014, at 13:53, Cristiano Longo <longo@dmi.unict.it> wrote:
>
>> Dear Martin, I'm a sofware developer with some research skills in the field of knoweldge representation. I found a mail you sent on the semantic web mailing list (see cc) around two years ago about the pubblication by sears and kmart of their products using semantic web format. I wonder about the converse direction: do you know if publishing the description of a product as RDFa or RDF/XML may favour in entering into the sear or kmart (or some other e-commerce portal) in some way?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>> CL

Received on Wednesday, 12 February 2014 14:28:15 UTC