[uf-discuss] hCard and Internet Retailers (Shopping Contact Information)

Jay Myers jmyers at visi.com
Mon Oct 18 15:51:57 PDT 2010


Indeed, GoodRelations in RDFa or Microdata would be a good place to  
look. Follow this link for a sitemap index of all our stores in RDFa  
as an example:

Http://stores.bestbuy.com/webservices/sitemap-rdfa.xml

Jay Myers


On Oct 18, 2010, at 4:39 AM, Toby Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk>  
wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 18:19 +0100, Junaid Nazir wrote:
>> We are actively working with the product catalogues of some 500
>> internet retailers through our shopping search engine database at
>> http://www.superstoresearch.com and we have access to thousands of
>> more contacts in the shopping and retail industry - if we have some
>> agreed and suitable standards for the various types of contact
>> information, we could reach out to the internet retailers and put
>> forward the suggestion that they adopt such standards and implement
>> them on their e-commerce sites.
>
> Have you looked at GoodRelations? It's an RDF-based method of  
> marking up
> businesses (including stores/branches/offices), opening hours,  
> products,
> services and offers. Via RDFa it can be embedded in HTML.
>
> GoodRelations is apparently being consumed by Yahoo and Google; and is
> being published by O'Reilly (the book publishers) and BestBuy (an
> electronics retailer) amongst others.
>
> http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/
>
> -- 
> Toby A Inkster
> <mailto:mail at tobyinkster.co.uk>
> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
>
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