Vocabularies

= Extensions for GoodRelations for Specific Industries =

GoodRelations can be used in combination with a vocabulary that defines the specific type of products and their features for a particular industry segment, e.g. - cars, - tickets, - hotels, etc.

On this page, we list such vocabularies.

Featured

 * Cars, boats, bikes, etc.: The Vehicle Sales Ontology (VSO)
 * http://purl.org/vso/ns
 * Used by Volkswagen and others
 * Tickets for concerts, museums, and airfare and train tickets: The Tickets Ontology (TIO)
 * http://purl.org/tio/ns
 * Used by Volkswagen and others
 * The Products Ontology: over 600,000 precise classes from Wikipedia
 * http://www.productontology.org
 * Used by sears.com and others
 * Hotels, Camping Sites, Vacation Homes: The Accommodation Ontology (ACCO)
 * http://purl.org/acco/ns
 * Used by STI Innsbruck in many tourism-related projects.

Others

 * eClassOWL 5.1
 * The first industry-strength ontology for product types and features
 * 60,000 classes and 5,000 properties
 * http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/eclassowl/
 * freeClassOWL - Construction and building materials
 * http://www.freeclass.eu/freeclass_v1
 * Volkswagen Vehicles Ontology
 * http://purl.org/vvo/ns
 * Volkswagen Car Options Ontology
 * http://purl.org/coo/ns
 * Mobile Provider Ontology
 * http://www.openvocabulary.info/ontologies/ecommerce.html
 * Mobile Device Ontology
 * http://www.openvocabulary.info/ontologies/device.html
 * openICEcat-compatible ontologies
 * Consumer Electronics Ontology (CEO)
 * ebSemantics Ontologies (still pretty much beta but already in use in Austria)
 * Ontology for Events: OWL, HTML (Documentation)
 * Ontology for Restaurants etc.: OWL, HTML (Documentation)
 * Ontology for Accommodations: OWL, HTML (Documentation)

Creating New Vocabularies for Products and Services
For specific vertical industries, it may be useful to create your own vocabulary/ontology for types of goods and services and their features.


 * A detailed explanation on what to observe is here: http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Own_GoodRelations_Vocabularies
 * A Simple toy ontology for products and services (for educational purposes only) is at http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/examples/toy