GoodRelations is a

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online data, dealing with business-related goods and services. It handles the individual relationships between a buyer, a seller and the products and services offered. In November 2012, it was integrated into the Schema.org ontology.

Usage

GoodRelations became popular owing to its success in improving

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results. By 2009, the ontology's ''Product'' concept was being used to describe over a million products and their prices. By 2013, GoodRelations had been adopted by the

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data providers at that time found it to be the most prevalent ontology in use. As of mid-2015, GoodRelations had become the ''de facto'' ontology for e-commerce, and was in widespread use, having been adopted by retailers such as BestBuy. GoodRelations is additionally used in academic studies of the Semantic Web, as a core ontology.

Example

A shop, restaurant, or store, and its opening hours, may be specified using GoodRelations as in this example, which also uses

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and FOAF:

References

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