The GoodRelations User's Guide
Note: The new GoodRelations User's Guide is still under development.
In the meantime, you can use the 2008 version of the GoodRelations primer, available at
I. Quickstart (to be completed)
- What is GoodRelations?
- Adding GoodRelations to Your Site
- Minimal Example for Google and Yahoo and Facebook
- Adding GoodRelations to Standard Web Shop Software
- Feature Comparison
II. Preliminaries (to be completed)
- Design Goals and Considerations
- GoodRelations vs. the Semantic Web, Linked Data, and the Opengraph Protocol
- RDF, RDF/XML, RDFa, Microdata, and SPARQL
- Understanding the New Role of URIs for Data Markup
- The Single, Most Productive Way of Developing RDFa Markup
- GoodRelations in Microdata syntax and in combination with schema.org
- Tool Recommendations for Developers
III. GoodRelations in Depth (to be completed)
- Understanding the Conceptual Model
- Offer (gr:Offering)
- Company or Person (gr:BusinessEntity)
- Store or Point of Sale (gr:Location)
- Opening Hours
- Product or Service (gr:ProductOrService, gr:SomeItems, gr:Individual)
- Pricing
- Bundles
- Options, Add-ons, Extensions
- Product Models
- Product Variants
- Structured Values and Value References
- Consumables, Accessories, Spare Parts, and Similar Products
- GoodRelations and Product Ontologies
- Developing Extensions for Vertical Industries
- Explicating Demand: Wish-lists, Tendering, Interest to Buy
- Exposing Ownership: Global Shopping History
- Access Control
- Reviews
- Images and Logos
- Geo Data
IV. Publishing GoodRelations Data (to be completed)
- Overview
- Only RDFa
- Only Microdata
- Only RDF/XML
- SPARQL Endpoints
- Combining RDFa and RDF/XML
- Sitemaps, Semantic Sitemaps, and Dumps
- Spreading the Word: Ping Services and Search Engine Submission
V. Consuming GoodRelations Data (to be completed)
VI. Annex (to be completed)
License:
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