Brilliant! congrats Martin, that's fantastic news :-D
Martin Hepp 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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