Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote:
Dear all:
I just found out that Kingsley Idehen released a major update of
Virtuoso sponger cartridges that create and collate "virtual"
meta-data for existing Web pages.
See
http://tr.im/bestbuygr2
for an example.
The cool thing is
- The data does not come from BestBuy directly; it is collected and
collated on the fly from APIs and other resources (i.e. this is not
yet the original BestBuy data).
- It used the full level of detail of the GoodRelations ontology for
e-commerce, http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations (not
just 1 -2 properties).
- It exposes both price information and technical features in
GoodRelations.
- If you request an XHTML version of the page, you get the meta-data
in RDFa for further reuse and combination in novel scenarios.
There are a few very minor issues with the data; we already provided
respective feedback to Openlink SW. But all should be quick fixes.
I am confident that this is a major step for a Web of Linked Data,
because the same approach can bring unprecedented amounts of highly
detailed GoodRelations data for existing Web content.
Well done, Kingsley!
Martin,
Thanks!
But well done (with more to come) to OpenLink Software :-)
Kingsley
Best
Martin
--
Regards,
Kingsley Idehen Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
President & CEO
OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
