product-examples

Product Examples

This is an exploratory page to document product examples currently published around the web. Typically, the metadata associated with this content is stored in non-semantic markup and proprietary formats. The purpose of the studies on this page is to serve as background for the design of a simple distributed product microformat.

Authors

• Aaron Gustafson
• Adam Craven
• Craig Cook

Examples

Amazon

CD

• buying - contains unstructured data
  • album (product name)
  • artist
• prodImage
• listprice
• price (actual price and "you save")
• productDetails - contains unstructured data
  • format
  • release date
  • # of discs
  • label
  • ASIN

Book

• buying - contains unstructured data
  • title (product name)
  • format
  • author
• prodImage
• listprice
• price (actual price and "you save")
• productDetails - contains unstructured data
  • format
  • page count
  • publisher
  • publication date
  • language
  • ISBN
  • dimensions
  • weight

Video Game

• buying - contains unstructured data
  • title (product name)
  • publisher
  • platform
• prodImage
• listprice
• price (actual price and "you save")
• bucket (game info)
  • ESRB Rating
  • genre
• productDetails - contains unstructured data
  • ASIN
  • SKN
  • release date

Outdoor Product

• buying - contains unstructured data
  • product name
  • brand
• prodImage
• listprice
• price (actual price and "you save")
• bucket (product features)
• productDetails - contains unstructured data
  • dimensions
  • weight
  • ASIN
  • model number

Buy.com

CD

• productTitle
• artist (unstructured)
• image (unstructured)
• mainPricSection - contains unstructured data
  • actual price
  • shipping
  • total (augmented by quantity)
• prodPriceSec_2 - actually product details
  • format
  • release date
  • label
  • SKU
  • item #
• prodInfoSec_1 - additional details
  • description

Book

• productTitle
• author (unstructured)
• image (unstructured)
• mainPricSection - contains unstructured data
  • actual price
  • shipping
  • total (augmented by quantity)
• prodPriceSec_2 - actually product details
  • format
  • ISBN
  • publication date
  • publisher
  • dimensions
  • SKU
  • item #
• prodInfoSec_1 - additional details
  • description

Video Game

• productTitle
• image (unstructured)
• mainPricSection - contains unstructured data
  • actual price
  • shipping
  • total (augmented by quantity)
• prodPriceSec_2 - actually product details
  • format
  • release date
  • publisher
  • sku
• prodInfoSec_1 - additional details
  • description

TV

• productTitle
• image (unstructured)
• mainPricSection - contains unstructured data
  • list price (msrp)
  • you save
  • price
  • shipping
  • actual price
• prodPriceSec_2 - actually product details
  • manufacturer (brand)
  • part #
  • SKU
  • item #
• prodInfoSec_1 - additional details
  • description
• prodInfoSec_2 - tech specs (unstructured)
  • type (product description summary)
  • display area
  • native resolution
  • contrast ratio
  • viewing angles
  • power
  • weight
  • warranty
  • etc.

Ben Sherman

Clothes

Link to product rather than actual product immediately available for sale. Personally marked-up and used rel-product ideas to link to the shop.

• Image
  • Thumbnail
• Product
  • Type
  • Title
• Properties
  • Colour
• Link
  • Buy this Online (rel=product)

Mark-up:

<div class="hproduct">
	<img src="#" alt="polo shirt" class="product-thumb" />
	<h3 class="product-type">Polo Shirt</h3>
	<h4 class="product-title">Coxmoor</h4>
	<p class="p-v"><span class="property">Colour:</span> <span class="value">289 Rush</span></p>
	<p><a href="poloshirt/coxmoor/" title="Buy This Online" rel="product">Buy This Online</a></p>
</div>

CDs

Additionally the site has links to products on Amazon.

• Image
  • Thumbnail
• Product
  • Title
• Properties
  • Artist
• Link
  • Buy this Online (rel=product)
• Currency implementation

<div class="hproduct">
	<a href="#" rel="product"><img src="assets/images/timeline/amazon/small-faces.gif" alt="Small Faces Album" class="product-thumb" /></a>
	<h3 class="product-title"><a href="#" rel="product">Nut Gone Flakes</a></h3>
	<h4 class="p-v"><span class="property artist">Small Faces</span></h4>
	<p class="product-buy"><a href="#" title="Buy this online" rel="product">Buy from Amazon</a></p>
	<p class="money"><abbr class="currency" title="GBP">£</abbr><span class="amount">6.99</span></p>
</div>

The use of Non-visible property names made it possible to have an invisible property of 'artist'. Having Artist: The Kinks was not in the visual specification of the Ben Sherman site.

See Also

• currency
• hProduct Brainstorming
• hProduct Discussion
• hProduct Formats
• hProduct Challenge Examples