Chipping in a little late - yep, this really is excellent news.
E-commerce was a huge driver for the Web (/me sidesteps the bust),
there's every reason it could be a shot in the arm for the semweb too.
Also the lure of shopkeeper $$$s makes this kind of thing great
pedagogical material - note
Hi Danny,
thanks.
Note that the value proposition of more structure and a higher link
density in commerce data is not even tougher price comparison shopping,
but deep comparison shopping - a better match between the diversity of
offers and their individual value proposion on one hand and the
I will publish a more complete example at
http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Examples
shortly.
Martin
Well I hope Google does adopt GoodRelations ! You might want to
consider making a simple example of the most frequent kind of online
catalog. It just has: product catagory,
Nice!
And it seems to work for just the HTML+RDFa snippet generated by
ReDeFer RDF2HTML:
http://developer.search.yahoo.com/help/objectfinder?url=http%3A%2F%2Frhizomik.net%2Fredefer%2Frdf2html%2FminimalExampleGoodRelations%2Findex.html
Best,
Roberto García
http://rhizomik.net/~roberto
On Thu,
Well at first blush this is good news. But then why do we want to use
a vocabulary like product:listPrice which is locked to a specific
yahoo domain: http://search.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/product/ ? Is
Google going to come along with another different word for that? Then
which one does a
Dear all:
Great news: ANY site owner in the world has now a clear incentive to add
GoodRelations meta-data in RDFa to his/her page:
As of now, Yahoo will display price and offering details and other
meta-data of any e-commerce Web page if the site owner uses
GoodRelations vocabulary
