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Re: [ontolog-forum] ANN: BestBuy.com starts publishing full catalog as R

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From: Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:52:28 -0700
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Congratulations, Martin, and everyone involved to make this landmark
event happen!    (01)

(Without disclosing proprietary stuff) Would you be kind enough to
help organize an Ontolog Forum virtual session to tell us more about
this momentous effort, and the learnings from the exercise?    (02)

Thanks & regards.  =ppy
--    (03)


On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Martin Hepp
(UniBW)<martin.hepp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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 items. With about 60 triples per item, this totals to about
> 27 million RDF triples.
>
> Semantic Sitemap: http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/sitemap.xml
>
> Examples:
> a) Software:
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/8182593/semanticweb.rdf
>
> b) "Hardgoods":
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/8794691/semanticweb.rdf
>
> c) Movies:
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/7590289/semanticweb.rdf
>
> d) Games:
> http://products.semweb.bestbuy.com/products/9223752/semanticweb.rdf
>
> Other than many existing large RDF transcripts, the data very dynamic,
> holding the daily prices for all items.
> According to Wikipedia, BestBuy.com is the largest specialty retailer of
> consumer electronics in the United States accounting for 19% of the market.
>
> It is likely the first Fortune 500 company to start publishing offer
> details on the Web of Linked Data.
>
> Congratulations to Jay Myers from BestBuy.com for this excellent
> contribution, and a big thanks to Andreas Radinger and Alex Stolz for
> their support,
>
> Best wishes
>
> Martin Hepp
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> martin hepp
> e-business & web science research group
> universitaet der bundeswehr muenchen
>
> e-mail:  mhepp@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> phone:   +49-(0)89-6004-4217
> fax:     +49-(0)89-6004-4620
> www:     http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/ (group)
>         http://www.heppnetz.de/ (personal)
> skype:   mfhepp
> twitter: mfhepp
>
> Check out GoodRelations for E-Commerce on the Web of Linked Data!
> =================================================================
>
> Webcast:
> http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/webcast/
>
> Recipe for Yahoo SearcMonkey:
> http://tr.im/rAbN
>
> Talk at the Semantic Technology Conference 2009:
> "Semantic Web-based E-Commerce: The GoodRelations Ontology"
> http://tinyurl.com/semtech-hepp
>
> Overview article on Semantic Universe:
> http://tinyurl.com/goodrelations-universe
>
> Project page:
> http://purl.org/goodrelations/
>
> Resources for developers:
> http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations
>
> Tutorial materials:
> CEC'09 2009 Tutorial: The Web of Data for E-Commerce: A Hands-on
> Introduction to the GoodRelations Ontology, RDFa, and Yahoo! SearchMonkey
> http://tr.im/grcec09
>
>
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