GoodRelations

Last updated
GoodRelations
Year started2001 [1]
Base standards URI, OWL, RDFa
Related standards Microformat, RDFS, N-Triples, Turtle, JSON, JSON-LD, CSV
Domain Semantic Web
License CC-BY-SA 3.0 [2]
Abbreviationschema
Website purl.org/goodrelations/

GoodRelations is a Web Ontology Language-compliant ontology for Semantic Web online data, dealing with business-related goods and services. [3] It handles the individual relationships between a buyer, a seller and the products and services offered. In November 2012, it was integrated into the Schema.org ontology. [4]

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Usage

GoodRelations became popular owing to its success in improving search engine results. [5]

By 2009, the ontology's Product concept was being used to describe over a million products and their prices. [6] By 2013, GoodRelations had been adopted by the search engines Yahoo!, [7] [8] Google, [7] and Bing. [7] An analysis of online e-commerce data providers at that time found it to be the most prevalent ontology in use. [7] As of mid-2015, GoodRelations had become the de facto ontology for e-commerce, [8] [9] and was in widespread use, having been adopted by retailers such as BestBuy. [8]

GoodRelations is additionally used in academic studies of the Semantic Web, [10] [11] as a core ontology. [7] [9]

Example

A shop, restaurant, or store, and its opening hours, may be specified using GoodRelations as in this example, which also uses vCard and FOAF: [12] 

<divxmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"xmlns:gr="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#"xmlns:vcard="http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#"xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#"><divabout="#store"typeof="gr:Location"><divproperty="gr:name"content="Pizzeria La Mamma"></div><divrel="vcard:adr"><divtypeof="vcard:Address"><divproperty="vcard:country-name"content="Germany"></div><divproperty="vcard:locality"content="Munich"></div><divproperty="vcard:postal-code"content="85577"></div><divproperty="vcard:street-address"content="1234 Main Street"></div></div></div><divproperty="vcard:tel"content="+33 408 970-6104"></div><divrel="foaf:depiction"resource="http://www.pizza-la-mamma.com/image_or_logo.png"></div><divrel="vcard:geo"><div><divproperty="vcard:latitude"content="48.08"datatype="xsd:float"></div><divproperty="vcard:longitude"content="11.64"datatype="xsd:float"></div></div></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursSpecification"><divabout="#mon_fri"typeof="gr:OpeningHoursSpecification"><divproperty="gr:opens"content="08:00:00"datatype="xsd:time"></div><divproperty="gr:closes"content="18:00:00"datatype="xsd:time"></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Friday"></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Thursday"></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Wednesday"></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Tuesday"></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Monday"></div></div></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursSpecification"><divabout="#sat"typeof="gr:OpeningHoursSpecification"><divproperty="gr:opens"content="08:30:00"datatype="xsd:time"></div><divproperty="gr:closes"content="14:00:00"datatype="xsd:time"></div><divrel="gr:hasOpeningHoursDayOfWeek"resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Saturday"></div></div></div><divrel="foaf:page"resource=""></div></div></div>

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References

Citations

  1. ↑ "History – GoodRelations Wiki". wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org.
  2. ↑ "GoodRelations Wiki:Copyrights – GoodRelations Wiki". wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org.
  3. ↑ Antoniou, Harmelen & Hoekstra 2012, p. 176.
  4. ↑ Hepp & Hoffner 2014, p. 34.
  5. ↑ Antoniou, Harmelen & Hoekstra 2012, pp. 176-177.
  6. ↑ Siegel 2009, p. 71.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 Ashraf, Jamshaid; Hussain, Omar Khadeer; Hussain, Farookh Khadeer (4 July 2013). "Empirical analysis of domain ontology usage on the Web: eCommerce domain in focus". Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. 26 (5): 1157–1184. doi:10.1002/cpe.3089. S2CID   44337539. To comprehensively understand the usage patterns of conceptual knowledge, instance data, and ontology co-usability, we considered GoodRelations ontology as the domain ontology and built a dataset by collecting structured data from 211 web-based data sources that have published information using the domain ontology.
  8. 1 2 3 Sikos 2015, p. 16.
  9. 1 2 Svátek, Vojtěch; Dudáš, Marek; Zamazal, Ondřej (October 2016). "Adapting ontologies to best-practice artifacts using transformation patterns: Method, implementation and use cases". Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web. 40: 52–64. doi:10.1016/j.websem.2016.07.002.
  10. ↑ Rodríguez-García, Miguel Ángel; Valencia-García, Rafael; García-Sánchez, Francisco; Samper-Zapater, J. Javier (1 March 2014). "Creating a semantically-enhanced cloud services environment through ontology evolution". Future Generation Computer Systems. 32: 295–306. doi:10.1016/j.future.2013.08.003.
  11. ↑ Barta, Robert; Feilmayr, Christina; Pröll, Birgit; Grün, Christoph; Werthner, Hannes (3 July 2017). "Covering the semantic space of tourism". Covering the Semantic Space of Tourism: An Approach Based on Modularized Ontologies. ACM. pp. 1:1–1:8. doi:10.1145/1552262.1552263. ISBN   9781605585284. S2CID   18590141.
  12. ↑ As of this edit, this article uses content from "Quickstart" , which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, but not under the GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed.

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