ANN: BauDataWeb: The European Building and Construction Materials Dataset for the Semantic Web

Dear all: I am glad to announce the official release of BauDataWeb, the European building and construction materials database for the Semantic Web: URI: http://semantic.eurobau.com/ With this project, we expose a major dataset reflecting the European building and construction materials marke

Support for Linked Data for E-Commerce in DotNetNuke Shop Software / GoodRelations

Dear all: The latest release of the NB_Store module [1] for e-commerce sites based on DotNetNuke CMS [2] seems to support GoodRelations in RDFa. See here for details: http://nbstore.codeplex.com/releases/view/45017 The underlying DotNetNuke CMS is said to power over 600,000 production w

Re: Share, Like Ontology

Hi Nathan, If "like" means "interest in obtaining", then I recommend gr:seeks http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#seeks This may be a bit stronger than what you originally intended, but on the other hand, what else would be a useful, precise meaning of liking something be in a business conte

Please stop massive crawling against http://openean.kaufkauf.net/id/

Dear all: The volunteer who is hosting http://openean.kaufkauf.net/id/, a huge set of GoodRelations product model data, is experiencing a problematic amount of traffic from unidentified crawlers located in Ireland (DERI?), the Netherlands (VUA?), and the USA. The crawling has been so intense

Powerful XHTML+RDFa templates for GoodRelations

Dear all: I just released a set of very powerful templates for generating GoodRelations data in RDFa and RDF/XML. See http://code.google.com/p/templates4goodrelations/ http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelationsTemplates Key features: * Compatible with all Django-style templati

New Snippet Generator for GoodRelations Markup in HTML/RDFa

Dear all: Alex Stolz developed an excellent new tool that simplifies adding GoodRelations markup in RDFa to any business Web page: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/tools/grsnippetgen/ It returns customized but short and handy snippets of additional HTML/RDFa markup that can be inserted int

Call for Papers: First International Workshop on Micro-Contributions by the Masses - The Future of Tagging and Microblogging (TAGS 2010)

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers: --- First International Workshop on Micro-Contributions by the Masses - The Future of Tagging and Microblogging (TAGS 2010) in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on "Knowledge Engineering and

Re: GoodRelations vs. Google RDFa vs. Open Graph vs. hProduct/hListing: Using GoodRelations in 10 Triples

FYI - This may also be of interest for anybody of you working on linked data for e-commerce. Best Martin Hepp Original Message Subject: More examples of modeling price information with GoodRelations Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 17:47:48 +0200 From: Martin Hepp (UniBW

Re: GoodRelations vs. Google RDFa vs. Open Graph vs. hProduct/hListing: Using GoodRelations in 10 Triples

Hi Henry, Thanks for your feedback! >I wonder if the following could make it even simpler though: First I think, why not make the currency a literal? foo:offering a gr:Offering; rdfs:label "Volkswagen Station Wagon, 4WD, 400 $"@en; rdfs:description "I sell my old Volkswagen Station Wago

Re: GoodRelations vs. Google RDFa vs. Open Graph vs. hProduct/hListing: Using GoodRelations in 10 Triples

.html On 03.05.10 10:38, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Dear all: Some people think that the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce (http://purl.org/goodrelations/) is powerful, but complex. I think it is important for everybody in the community to know that GoodRelations can be as simple (or

GoodRelations vs. Google RDFa vs. Open Graph vs. hProduct/hListing: Using GoodRelations in 10 Triples

Dear all: Some people think that the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce (http://purl.org/goodrelations/) is powerful, but complex. I think it is important for everybody in the community to know that GoodRelations can be as simple (or simpler) than any more lightweight approach for product m

Re: www.shopforia.com exposes GoodRelations in RDFa for 104,000 items / 5 mio. triples

nt making use of the triples. -Original Message- From: public-lod-requ...@w3.org [mailto:public-lod-requ...@w3.org] On Behalf Of Martin Hepp (UniBW) Sent: 28 April 2010 11:07 To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: www.shopforia.com exposes GoodRelations in RDFa for 104,000 items / 5 mio. triples

www.shopforia.com exposes GoodRelations in RDFa for 104,000 items / 5 mio. triples

Dear all: I am happy to announce one of many new major sources of GoodRelations data: http://www.shopforia.com/ recently added GoodRelations in RDFa to their 104,000 items pages in 26 categories: Example: http://www.shopforia.com/cgi-bin/apf4/apf4.cgi?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B003DRBA3S

eClassOWL 5.1.4 Ontology for Products and Services

Dear all: eClassOWL, initially released in 2004, has since been the most comprehensive and mature Web ontology for types of products and services. It defines classes for more than 30,000 product types and more than 5,000 properties for product features. Under the hood, eClassOWL is a non-tri

GoodRelations Ontology: Update + New Features + New Documentation

Dear all: We just released a service update to the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce. The update is backwards-compatible to previous releases and mainly adds additional properties that are important for the rental and accommodation business. We also redesigned the complete language referen

Re: KIT releases 14 billion triples to the Linked Open Data cloud

Hi Denny: Without spooling your All Fools' Day joke: I think it is a dangerous one, because there is obviously a true core in the expected criticism. I think that without any need, you give outsiders additional ammunition to confirm other outsiders' prejudices against the value of linked data.

Preview of the New GoodRelations Language Reference

Dear all: Over the last weeks, we have been working on a much improved documentation of the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce [1]. Our main goal was to provide a more readable, more accessible official specification. Please find a preview here: http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodr

BestBuy starts publishing info on "open-box" items on a per-store basis in RDF

Dear all: BestBuy has just started to expose info on available "open-box" items (returns, demo appliances, etc.) on a per-store granularity in RDF using GoodRelations. See Jay Myer's blog post at: http://jay.beweep.com/2010/03/30/creating-local-visibility-to-open-box-products-with-front-end-

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

ur issue is with a type mismatch between a URN and a URI; how FreeBase models their data; or general "mutually assured destruction"-ness of owl:sameAs. Thanks, -Ross. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: dear all: quite clearly, a book title is not the same a

Re: Generate RDFa with Epiphany

Best regards, Ben Martin Hepp (UniBW) schrieb: Hi Benjamin, Nice - can you create GoodRelations (http://purl.org/goodrelations/) patterns in RDFa for existing shop pages, e.g. identify price and product information? Just spotting the product name, description, EAN/UPC code, and price wou

Re: [Freebase-experts] ISBNs, owl:sameAs, etc

dear all: quite clearly, a book title is not the same as a book, and if the linked data community continues to link apples and oranges via owl:sameAs then either - the socially agreed meaning owl:sameAs is being degraded to untyped href in HTML or - vast amount of data in the linked data cl

Re: Generate RDFa with Epiphany

Hi Benjamin, Nice - can you create GoodRelations (http://purl.org/goodrelations/) patterns in RDFa for existing shop pages, e.g. identify price and product information? Just spotting the product name, description, EAN/UPC code, and price would already very valuable. Best Martin PS: Did you

ANN: New GoodRelations and Generic RDF/RDFa Tools

(Apologies for cross-posting) Dear all: In the past year, we released a lot of tools in the context of the GoodRelations vocabulary (http://purl.org/goodrelations/) that may be of wider interest. All tools are available on-line and most are also released as sourcecode under LPGL. 1. Generic Too

Re: Ontology Wars? Concerned

There are lots of trade-offs when designing an ontology, e.g. specificity vs. size of the target user community - this has e.g. been discussed in Hepp, Martin: Possible Ontologies: How Reality Constrains the Development of Relevant Ontologies, in: IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 1, pp.

ANN: GoodRelations Annotator 2.0 + New Webcast

Dear all: We are happy to release a significantly improved version of the GoodRelations Annotator, a tool that helps any business in the world to create a rich description of its line of business, opening hours, payment options, and the like in RDF. The new version creates a handy RDFa snipp

Pre-release: New GoodRelations Annotator - Simple RDFa snippets for copy-and-paste

Dear all: We are in the process of finalizing an improved version of the GoodRelations Annotator Tool. With that tool, any company can quickly create a rich description of its line of business, opening hours, payment options, and the like. In the past, publishing the resulting RDF data proved t

Re: Need help mapping two letter country code to URI

Hi Aldo, Note that there are multiple branches of the ISO 3166 familiy of codes. See pages 23 and 24 of the GoodRelations Technical Report (http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/GoodRelations-TR-final.pdf) for a more detailed discussion. I am still not aware of any authoritative URI s

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

t 17, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Juan Sequeda wrote: But Sindice could at least crawl Amazon. It would be great to use sig.ma to create a "meshup" with the amazon data. Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin www.juansequeda.com www.semanticwebaus

Re: The Power of Virtuoso Sponger Technology

ty of Texas at Austin www.juansequeda.com www.semanticwebaustin.org On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) < h...@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote: Dear all: I just found out that the Virtuoso Sponger technology is even more powerful than I thought. Briefly: "Spong

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

Hi Eugenio: Eugenio Tacchini wrote: Hi Martin, thanks a lot for your detailed explanation; I will try to play with searchmonkey ASAP. I'm also the webmaster of an Italian Web site that sells event tickets and downloadable music and I would like to apply goodrelations to it. There is the st

GoodRelations: ProductOrService and its subclasses

Dear all: I thought it was helpful to clarify the usage of the four classes for products and services in GoodRelations: The intended usage is as follows: * ProductOrServicesSomeInstancesPlaceholder o Use this when you have multiple, mass produced items for sale. It represents mul

Re: Breaking News: GoodRelations data now shows up in Yahoo!

Hi David, Daniel O'Connor wrote: http://goodrelations.doconnor.user.dev.freebaseapps.com/ Freebase data being rendered as Good Relations ("Or Barbie and Ken's Semantic Web Playset") thanks for the initiative - very valuable! >What's the best way to validate this / check it would show up

Breaking News: GoodRelations data now shows up in Yahoo!

Dear all: I can report on the first confirmed page with GoodRelations + RDFa rich meta-data that shows up in Yahoo with additional details: URI: http://tr.im/yahooproduct2 Screenshot attached. The price of $ 34.99 comes directly from the RDFa markup, as described in the recipe at http://www.eb

Useful rules & axioms for GoodRelations

Dear all: I just finalized a Wiki page on useful rules & axioms for GoodRelations: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelationsOptionalAxiomsAndLinks The page now contains recommended default rules for - product models, - product model variants, and - the gr:includes shortcut. Any feedba

ANN: GoodRelations Popularity Statistics Now Available as RDFa

Dear all: We have just started monitoring the individual popularity of GoodRelations classes and properties. See the application at http://goodrelations-stats.appspot.com/ I just added RDFa markup to the results page so that the data can be fetched / parsed and reused. There is currently no off

OpenLink Software brings full power of GoodRelations BestBuy and others

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 co

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

Hi Juan, Juan Sequeda wrote: Gotcha! Now I understand perfectly. I'm trying to get the local businesses in Austin to add RDFa. However, I have nothing tangible to show them. IMHO, the best way to convince business to do this is if you go through the SEO people. But until we don't see Yahoo (and

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

enefits of putting RDFa in my page" Thanks! Juan Sequeda, Ph.D Student Dept. of Computer Sciences The University of Texas at Austin www.juansequeda.com www.semanticwebaustin.org On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) < martin.h...@ebusiness-unibw.org> wrote: Hi Eugeni

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

Hi Eugenio: >I think I'm missing the point, Yahoo announced the first support for microformats more or less one year and half ago, and for RDFa one year ago >(http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:45 AM, Eugenio Tacchini wrote: At 10.24 21/09/2009 +0200, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Hi Juan, Eugenio: Where can we see search results in Yahoo that come from the RDF of Bestbuy and Goodrelations? First, note that currently

Re: Yahoo RDFa enahced results example

Hi Juan, Eugenio: Where can we see search results in Yahoo that come from the RDF of Bestbuy and Goodrelations? First, note that currently, only the standard Yahoo search results are by default enhanced by structured meta-data, i.e., you do not appear in the "local business" directory by Yah

Recipe for Embedding RDFa in ANY MediaWiki Wiki

Dear all: Based on a patch by Toby Inkster, we developed a recipe for publishing GoodRelations-compliant rich meta-data in RDFa for any business using a *standard* MediaWiki wiki. The recipe shows how any business with access to a MediaWiki instance can publish detailed descriptions of its ope

IT Conversations Podcast Features GoodRelations and RDFa

Dear all: IT Conversations, the longest-running podcast on the planet, featured the GoodRelations vocabulary and RDFa. In a recent episode of the "Interviews With Innovators" track, Jon Udell interviewed Kingsley Idehen on "RDFa and Structured Data". For the podcast, see http://itc.conversatio

Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

long as a suitable property from the core RDFS vocabulary is available. 2. The status of this property is "testing" only. But is perfectly fine for anybody to attach additional term_isPrimaryTopicOf properties to any conceptual element in GoodRelations data. Martin Hi, 2009/9/

Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

rstand (without a thorough analyis, though), that BestBuy's usage of a single sitemap and multiple semantic sitemaps is okay. Giovanni [1] http://sw.deri.org/2007/07/sitemapextension/ On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Dear all: BestBuy.com has just started to

Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

Dear Peter: Peter Ansell wrote: I would hardly call it "Linked Data", as they don't use resolvable URI's. All of the URI's seem to branch off http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/semanticweb.rdf , and that URI is not resolvable to anything. RDF encoded information is good though, even if it does h

Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

Hi Daniel: Daniel Schwabe wrote: That is indeed very good and auspicious news. Are there any SPARQL endpoints available? The data is available as RDF/XML files from BestBuy.com, but it will soon be regularly included in the Linked Open Commerce dataspace at http://loc.openlinksw.com/sp

Re: ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

Hi Melvin, Melvin Carvalho wrote: Fantastic news. Have you had a chance to compare the data from bestbuy to that of productdb at all? Not yet, but am looking at productDB. However, note that BestBuy is releasing its own operational product database as RDF/XML. You may be able to link that

ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as RDF/XML using GoodRelations - 27 million triples

Dear all: BestBuy.com has just started to serve a complete RDF/XML dump of their products and price information to the Web of Linked Data, using the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce. The data dump is updated on a daily basis and contains detailed descriptions for roughly 450,000 individual

Re: ProductDB

Note that the GoodRelations "seeks" patterns allows using the full amount of details and the same vocabulary for specifying wish lists you can say that you are interested in TV sets with at least 11 inches of screen size etc. So it is not only a simple wish list, but allows using all features o

Re: ProductDB

Hi Juan: GoodRelations already provides support for wish lists: See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelationsSeeks No need to reivent it ;-) Best Martin Juan Sequeda wrote: Congrats Ian and all! Great contribution! Toby, how about a wish list vocabulary? Would be cool if it gets d

ANN: RDF2RDFa: Turning RDF/XML into Snippets for Copy-and-Paste

Dear all: We are proud to announce the first prototype of the RDF2RDFa tool, which aims at simplifying the publication of RDF for Web developers. This tool converts arbitrary RDF/XML documents into a block of div/span elements without human-readable content. Such a block of markup can be simply

Re: "Two-way Search" demo anyone?

Side note: I just put a recipe on-line that shows how the very same GoodRelations elements used for describing offers can be used for describing demand with the gr:seeks property. http://tr.im/grseeks BTW, you can combine that with most other recipes from http://tr.im/cookbook For instance,

Re: Alternatives to OWL for linked data?

Did you look at SPIN? http://spinrdf.org/ That should allow you do do a lot with data without leaving the now mainstream Semantic Web technology stack (as long as a small fragment of OWL is sufficient for you). Best Martin Axel Rauschmayer wrote: I'm currently reading Hendler's brilliant b

ANN: Conversion tool from BMEcat XML catalogs into GoodRelations RDF/XML

Dear all: I am glad to announce the availability of BMEcat2GoodRelations, an on-line conversion tool that creates GoodRelations product and offer data in RDF/XML from catalogs in the popular XML format BMEcat 2005. With that tool, it is easy to turn available XML catalogs into data for public

Recipe for Shops: Showing up in Yahoo and in the Web of Data in One Turn

Dear all: I just completed a recipe meant for larger audiences (Web developers, SEO companies) on how a business can enrich its pages using RDFa+GoodRelations so that the data - shows up in Yahoo AND - it at the same time useful for comprehensive RDF applications. The recipe is at http://tr.im/

Re: Excellent News for LOD: Yahoo Provides Tool for RDFa+GoodRelations for Site Owners

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

Re: Excellent News for LOD: Yahoo Provides Tool for RDFa+GoodRelations for Site Owners

s:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#";> 27.99 Startech Serial ATA Cable - 45.72cm - Red -- Seth Russell www.speaktomecatalog.com On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Dear all: Great news: ANY site owner in the world has now a clear inc

IJSWIS Special Issue on Scalability and Performance of Semantic Web Systems

(apologies for cross-posting) Dear all: We are pleased to announce the latest issue of IJSWIS, which is a special issue on "Scalability and Performance of Semantic Web Systems" ~~ The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal on

Excellent News for LOD: Yahoo Provides Tool for RDFa+GoodRelations for Site Owners

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 elements.

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Dear all: Fyi - I am in contact with Google as for the clarification of what kind of empty div/span elements are considered acceptable in the context of RDFa. It may take a few days to get an official statement. Just so that you know it is being taken care of... Martin Mark

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

Dear all: Fyi - I am in contact with Google as for the clarification of what kind of empty div/span elements are considered acceptable in the context of RDFa. It may take a few days to get an official statement. Just so that you know it is being taken care of... Martin Mark Birbeck wrote:

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

a mapping always causes additional work on data maintenance. This time, the extra work could be a nightmare though the architecture is neat. yihong On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Hi Tom: Amen. Thank you for writing this. I co

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

n-ary relations), then they will also not be dereferencable. The same holds for URIs or nodes that are outside the scope of the actual RDFa / XHTML document - I see no simple way of serving neither XHTML nor RDF content for those. Best Martin Tom Heath wrote: Martin, 2009/6/27 Mar

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

So if this "hidden div / span" approach is not feasible, we got a problem. The reason is that, as beautiful the idea is of using RDFa to make a) the human-readable presentation and b) the machine-readable meta-data link to the same literals, the problematic is it in reality once the structure

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

Kingsley: So basically you think that RDF hosting will ne a new market segment with services like small RDF hosting services (same as private Web space packages), free hosting (maybe with ads included in the RDF), etc.? Martin Kingsley Idehen wrote: >Martin: >I think having a third party rela

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

Hi Toby, Toby A Inkster wrote: On 25 Jun 2009, at 21:18, Pat Hayes wrote: If [RDF] requires people to tinker with files with names starting with a dot [...] then the entire SWeb architecture is fundamentally broken. RDF doesn't. Apache does. Many hosts do have front ends for configuring Ap

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

ive you an existing HTML, you give them back the modified HTML (saves them cutting and pasting steps?). I'm a little ignorant on your tools and processes, so apologies if these are non-starters. John On Jun 25, 2009, at 9:44 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Hi all: After about two mo

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

Hi Knut: Knud Hinnerk Möller wrote: Hi Martin, On 25.06.2009, at 17:44, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: ... These are interesting statistics, maybe you want to blog about them or publish them in some other way? Thanks to W3C, my preliminary report was automatically assigned a dereferencable

Re: .htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

As mostly, recently ;-), I agree with Kingsley - I did not want to say that proper usage of http is bad or obsolete. But it turned out unfeasible for broad adoption my owners of small Web sites. For huge data sources and for vocabularies, the current recipes are fine. But I want every single b

.htaccess a major bottleneck to Semantic Web adoption / Was: Re: RDFa vs RDF/XML and content negotiation

Hi all: After about two months of helping people generate RDF/XML metadata for their businesses using the GoodRelations annotator [1], I have quite some evidence that the current best practices of using .htaccess are a MAJOR bottleneck for the adoption of Semantic Web technology. Just some d

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

Hi Kingsley, You are of course right - I assume that, despite the terminological mess I introduced, you agree with my line of argument; I fully acknowledge it is heavily inspired by our San Jose sushi talk ;-) Martin Kingsley Idehen wrote: Martin, [SNIP] As Kingsley said - deceptively s

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

It was not my intend to insult anybody. But I still don't get why some of you want to recommend a pattern that breaks with a current W3C recommendation just on the basis that there are many documents out there that break with it. The Swoogle post from 2007 simply says that there are many docume

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

Brickley wrote: On 22/6/09 23:16, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Yves Raimond wrote: Ontology modularization is a pretty difficult task, and people use various heuristics for deciding what to put in the subset being served for an element. There is no guarantee that the fragment you get contains

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

Yves Raimond wrote: Ontology modularization is a pretty difficult task, and people use various heuristics for deciding what to put in the subset being served for an element. There is no guarantee that the fragment you get contains everything that you need. Sorry, just jumping on that, a

Re: http://ld2sd.deri.org/lod-ng-tutorial/

Hi Michael: (moving this to LOD public as suggested) General note: I am quite unhappy with a general movement in parts of the LOD community to clash with the OWL world even when that is absolutely unnecessary. It is just a bad engineering practice to break with existing standards unless you c

PingTheSemanticWeb and Sitemaps

Dear all: I am sure you all agree that PingTheSemanticWeb is a key service for many of our applications. Unfortunately, it does currently not support the bulk notification for datasets for which a semantic sitemap is available. Since some of you maybe facing the same problem, I just put a sh

Re: Bestbuy.com goes Semantic Web the GoodRelations Way

Hi Aldo: Kingsley: Does any of the upper level ontologies or LOD datasets provide industry sectors with a useful level of granularity? Note that GoodRelations provides the gr:hasISICv4 and the gr:hasNAICS properties for linking a gr:BusinessEntity to the proper ISIC/NAICS category code for

Re: Bestbuy.com goes Semantic Web the GoodRelations Way

PS. In some cases, its a good idea to stop at the first kiss... but I think that the prospect of permeating the e-commerce dinosaur is sexy as hell ;) Yes, that is what drives me ;-) Martin PS: Think of the many novel e-business scenarios in affiliate marketing etc. when you can have web-wide

Bestbuy.com goes Semantic Web the GoodRelations Way

Hi all: Good news: Bestbuy.com goes Semantic Web the GoodRelations Way http://tinyurl.com/bestbuy-goodrelations Best Martin -- -- martin hepp e-business & web science research group universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen e-mail: mh...

HTTP 200 instead of 303

Dear all, is this an acceptable practice from an LOD point of view or are there technical concerns? Martin Damian Steer wrote: On 20 May 2009, at 18:54, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Hi Damian: Thanks for your e-mail! I must admit that I don't get what exactly you are proposing with

ANN: RDF2dataRSS Conversion - Feed RDF/XML into Yahoo SearchMonkey (beta)

Dear all: As you may know, Yahoo SearchMonkey accepts Semantic Web data only if either provided as RDFa or via the Yahoo-specific dataRSS feed format. This means that RDF/XML and other formats are currently not considered. Since it is sometimes desirable to publish data in RDF/XML rather than RD

Publishing RDF/XML Data on MS IIS Platforms

and Robert Meersman for the hint!) •  ModRewrite –  http://www.micronovae.com/ModRewrite/ModRewrite.html (Thanks to Sergio Fernández for the link!) Best Martin Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: Dear all: Are there any recommended Web resources for configuring Microsoft IIS to support redirects and

Re: ANN: GoodRelations - E-Commerce on the Web of Data - New Datasets and Applications

Hi Steve, as I replied to Libby (but did not include all mailing lists): The whole data set is served from currently 100 smaller files, which will be broken down to 1000 files shortly. For various reasons however, we don't want to serve one file per element, because that will create a huge ove

Re: ANN: GoodRelations - E-Commerce on the Web of Data - New Datasets and Applications

Hi Libby, That's rather fabulous! Can you give some information about how often this dataset is updated, and what's its geographical and product type reach? Thanks! This particular data set is a rather static collection and has a bias towards US products. It will soon be complemented by a mo

ANN: GoodRelations - E-Commerce on the Web of Data - New Datasets and Applications

Dear all: Thanks to the help of several partners, there are now new data sets and tools related to the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce: 1. OpenEAN data set: 1 million EAN/UPC codes plus respective labels --- The full data set

ANN: GoodRelations Service Update 2009-05-05 - Please refresh your caches!

Dear all: We just released a service update of the GoodRelations ontology for e-commerce. The ontology is available at http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1 If you want to explicitly fetch the OWL file or the HTML documentation, you may also use http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1.owl or http://purl

Re: vCard - Old vs. New?

exactly be used, and I at least knew exactly what I was looking for. How much worse will the same task be for someone from outside of the SW/LOD box? Martin Richard Cyganiak wrote: Martin, On 7 May 2009, at 07:51, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: (Due to the masses of "old" vCard data, it wo

Re: vCard - Old vs. New?

Dear all: From the messages in the thread, I conclude that: 1. There is an actual problem. 2. There are good reasons to converge the two vCard variants for the Semantic Web. 3. This will require additional discussion and work, both on the technical and organizational side. 4. Until this will h

vCard - Old vs. New?

Dear all: As far as I can see, there are now two vCard variants in use - the original http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0# and the new one http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns# Now - which one should data providers and application developers use? I see the technical advantages of the new variant

Re: ANN: The GoodRelations Annotator: How any business can get onto the Web of Data - today!

Hi all: >By the way, any chance of asserting that a gr:BusinessEntity is equivalent to a foaf:Organisation or foaf:Agent? As a statement in a particular data space, I think such a link is pretty accurate and useful. However, we currently prefer to collate such "heuristics"-based mapping axioms

Re: ANN: The GoodRelations Annotator: How any business can get onto the Web of Data - today!

Dear all: Apologies for the late reply.. To my knowledge, there is a pretty mature osCommerce output available at http://code.google.com/p/goodrelations-for-oscommerce/ It was developed by a student of mine. A similar approach for the Joomla/Virtuemart combo by the same student is available a

Hosting Semantic Web data on MS IIS?

Dear all: Are there any recommended Web resources for configuring Microsoft IIS to support redirects and content negotiation? What is easily done via .htaccess on Apache servers seems to be difficult or require commercial add-ons on MS IIS, as far as my quick Google search indicates. Is anyb

ANN: The GoodRelations Annotator: How any business can get onto the Web of Data - today!

Dear all: We are proud to announce the release of the GoodRelations Annotator, a form-based tool that will help any business in the world to create a description of its offerings suitable for the Web of Data, and that in less than 5 minutes. The tool is available at http://www.ebusiness-unibw.o

Re: Commonly supported properties

>I need to encode postal addresses and phone numbers for businesses (not >people) in some RDF I'm working on. Is there any particular existing >vocabulary that I should prefer over another for this application? For representing a business, I would also recommend importing the GoodRelations ontol

LOD Applications / Redland binaries for Mac OS

Dear all: Hopefully not too much off-topic (but I assume there are many Pythonists and Pythonians listening): Does anybody of you have hints on how to install Redland and Python bindings [1] *easily* on Mac OS X? Ideal would be a binary, as available for - I just don't want to dig to deeply