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 $$$s makes this kind of thing great pedagogical material - note the old MS demo Northwind database (btw RDFized by Kingsley & co.) and Java EE Pet Store [1]. Speaking of $$$s, I reckon there's a significant market opening for an out-of-the-box semweb-enabled online store 'solution'. > I will publish a more complete example at > > http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_Examples Good-oh. > I am currently in contact with Google and trying to communicate the > advantages of using standard vocabularies for meta-data, and I think there > are strong arguments. Good man. > Also note that it is fairly easy to transform any Google-specific mark-up > into standardized GoodRelations mark-up, and that several related tools are > in the making. Good to hear. Incidentally I've still not got around to figuring out the part-whole product description as mentioned at [2] (s/Tinocaster/Vinocaster - there was a preexisting Tinocaster :) so any suggestions there would still be appreciated. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://java.sun.com/developer/releases/petstore/ [2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2007Apr/0024.html -- http://danny.ayers.name
