The GoodRelations Cookbook

Work in progress: The new GoodRelations Cookbook 2012, a complete update that reflects the recent developments with schema.org, RDFa 1.1, etc., is still under development. In the meantime, you can access the old GoodRelations Cookbook, but keep in mind that some patterns may not reflect the latest state of support by search engines and other clients. When in doubt, please post to the GoodRelations mailing list.

The GoodRelations Cookbook is a growing collection of recipes for developers.

Most Popular

• Recipe 1: Quickstart Guide - the fastest way to get GoodRelations up and running
• Recipe 2: Adding GoodRelations to Web Shop Software Packages (status: to be completed)
  
• Recipe 3: Datasheets: Sharing product model master data (status: pretty mature)
• Recipe 4: Pricing: Quantity discounts, and price ranges
• Recipe 5: Tips for authoring RDFa (status: mature)
• Recipe 6: Combining GoodRelations and schema.org (status: mature)

Specific Industries

• Airfare
• Antiques
• Bikes (sales and rental)
• Boats (sales and rental)
• Books (traditional and e-books, new and used)
• Cars (sales and rental, new and used)
• Classified ads
• Clothing
• Concert tickets
• Consumer electronics
• Guided tours and outdoor events (e.g. canoe trip, hiking, backpacking)
• Hotels
• Movies: see Videos
• Museum admission
• Music for download
• Price Comparison Engines
• Real estate
• Repair
• Restaurants
• Services
• Shoes
• Taxi
• Train tickets
• Vacation homes
• Videos

Advanced Modeling

• Recipe 1: Reviews: Combining GoodRelations with product or company review data (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 2: GoodRelations with eClass (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 3: Exposing catalog group information 
• Recipe 4: Wish lists, demand, or tendering data: Describing your interest in certain offers (status: mature)
• Recipe 5: Attaching images and logos (status: mature)
• Recipe 6: Attaching identifiers: EAN/UPC, ISBN, GTIN, DUNS, GLN/ILN, NAICS, ISIC, etc. (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 7: Product bundles: Describing offers that include multiple items (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 8: Product variants: Modeling variants of products or product models (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 9: Consumables, spare parts, and substitutes: Relationships between products or product models (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 10: Shipping and payment charges: Modeling shipment and payment charges (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 11: Inventory levels: Modeling inventory levels / available quantities (status: mature)
• Recipe 12: Geo-position of stores, companies, or buyers (status: pretty mature)
• Recipe 13: Store availability: Publishing store availability for individual products (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 14: Value references and value dependencies (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 15: Exposing product ownership data for global shopping histories (status: mature)
• Recipe 16: Multilingual product descriptions: Exposing textual content in multiple languages (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 17: Opening hours: Irregular opening hours (status: to be completed)

Data Management

• Recipe 1: Publishing GoodRelations data on the Web: How to make your GoodRelations data known and used (status: mature)
• Recipe 2: Help search engines to crawl changing data (status: mature)
• Recipe 3: Managing access control to GoodRelations data (e.g. protecting reseller price lists etc.) (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 4: Available syntaxes for publishing GoodRelations (including dataRSS, Microdata, Turtle, RDF/XML, OData, GData)  (status: pretty mature)
• Recipe 5: GoodRelations in HTML5 microdata syntax (status: experimental)

Consuming GoodRelations

• Recipe 1: Querying GoodRelations data with SPARQL (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 2: Fetching product model features with SPARQL (status: to be completed)
• Recipe 3: GoodRelations and affiliate marketing: Using affiliate marketing URIs with GoodRelations (status: to be completed)