Tools

On this page, we summarize tools for creating, consuming, converting, and testing GoodRelations data.

Featured

Publishing GoodRelations

• GoodRelations Snippet Generator: Creates simple snippets of additional HTML/RDFa markup for copy-and-paste
• Extensions for Shop Software: Add GoodRelations to your shop application with a few mouse-clicks
  • Magento
  • Joomla/Virtuemart
  • Prestashop
  • xtCommerce
  • more...
• Django-/Jinja-style HTML templates: Very powerful HTML templates for adding GoodRelations data to your Web application

Converters

• RDF2RDFa converter, turns RDF/XML or Turtle content into simple RDFa snippets that can be easily pasted into any XHTML Web page.
• BMEcat2GoodRelations Converter: Converts product model master data and catalogs in BMEcat syntax to GoodRelations; ideal for publishing rich datasheets from PIM/PDM software
• Multi-format Data Markup Converter, can translate between RDFa, Microdata, RDF/XML, Turtle, NTriples, Trix, and JSON.
• more...

Validators

• GoodRelations Validator
• Search Engine Tools
  • Google Rich Snippets Testing Tool
  • Yahoo Searchmonkey Validator offline
  • Yandex Validator
  • Bing Validator requires registration

Consuming GoodRelations

• GR4PHP: A nice PHP API for using GoodRelations data about stores and products without learning SPARQL and GoodRelations
• GR2RSS: Consuming e-commerce data as RSS/Atom feeds
• GoodRelations Crawler (experimental)

Other Tools

Validators

• W3C Markup Validation Service
• W3C RDF Validator (for RDF/XML only)
• Vapour Linked Data Validator
  • Public Service
  • Project page on Sourceforge

Authoring and Generators

• GoodRelations Annotator - Somewhat outdated, but sophisticated tool for creating a description for your business in RDFa and RDF/XML.

Converters

• Google Product Feed Converter, converts Google Shopping feeds into GoodRelations data for the Web
• RDF2DataRSS converter, useful for publishing RDF in Yahoo! SearchMonkey
• RDF2XHTML service by Roberto Garcia, turns RDF/XML into XHTML+RDFa
  • http://rhizomik.net/redefer-services/rdf2html?rdf=http://www.heppnetz.de/semanticweb.rdf
    

Other Tools

• GoodRelations Statistics: Tool that collects and exposes detailed data on the popularity of GoodRelations elements in the wild (with RDFa export)
• Openlink Virtuoso Sponger Middleware, http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtSponger
  • The "Spongers" produce structured GoodRelations meta-data on-the-fly for any page from Amazon, eBay, BestBuy, O'Reilly,  CNET, and Zillow content.
• Openlink ODS:  http://ods.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/ODS
  
  • This is a tool (like the GoodRelations Annotator) for creating GoodRelations offer or requests in a given data space.
    
• Openlink URIBurner Service: http://uriburner.com
  • Creates and collates GoodRelations data for a given domain or Web page.
    
• The RDF Book Mashup at FU Berlin, now with GoodRelations support
  • Variant of the GoodRelations-enhanced Amazon Book Mashup
• Tools and Frameworks for Lifting Relational Data Resources to GoodRelations / RDF
• Example of Programming RDF "Spongers" in Python

Consuming GoodRelations Data

• Browser Extensions
  
  • Chrome Curreny Converter
    
  • Chrome GoodRelations Amazon Checker
  • Firefox GoodRelations Extension
• iGoogr: Imagine Google was using the GoodRelations vocabulary for e-commerce (this is now history - we used this prototype to explain the benefits of GoodRelations to Google)
• The LESS framework can be used for Content Syndication based on GoodRelations
• Openlink ODE: http://ode.openlinksw.com
  • A tool for presenting discovered GoodRelations data.
• Open Link Linked Open Commerce Dataspaces (SPARQL endpoints)
  • http://uriburner.com/sparql
  • http://loc.openlinksw.com/sparql
• GoodRelations SearchEngine (alpha - work in progress)
• The Mobeedo client for iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile will soon display all stores annotated with GoodRelations.

Deprecated Tools

See the dedicated deprecated tools page.