Ted Drake wrote:
I would thin this standard could be adopted quickly via microformats. What
are the thoughts?
I think microformats would probably help adoption with the less
sophisticated (smaller) retailers quickly, but would not satisfy all the
business needs of more sophisticated manufacturers.
More:
Microformats can help for product content that is on the manufacturer's
Web pages. But not all of the product content is on their Web pages,
especially for sophisticated manufacturers. One example is pricing
rules, which can be very complex. See the ARTS data model
http://www.nrf-arts.org/xml_dictionary_5/XMLDictionary-NonMembers.html.
Moreover, having worked on manufactuer/e-retailer collaboration software
in the 90s, my experience is that some, if not most manufacturers are
worried about how they differentiate on the electronic shelf (i.e. the
comparison shopping site), how their brand is represented, and as a
result are actually reluctant to making their Web site content easily
scraped, taking the risk that their content end up in places they don't
want to end up. So, they typically resort to integration mechanism or
other concepts (retailer-manager store-in-store) they can control and
authorize for select e-retailers they work closely with.
Guillaume
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