Monthly Archives: November 2010

The implementation of GoodRelations

The GoodRela­tions vocab­u­lary sup­ports three main con­cepts: a Busi­nessEn­tity, a Pro­duc­tOrSer­vice and an Offer­ing. Although Google cur­rently only sup­ports the lat­ter two, it is expected that, in time, the entire vocab­u­lary will be sup­ported. There­fore I would rec­om­mend to not just fol­low the cur­rent rec­om­men­da­tion, but to fol­low the offi­cial stan­dard. Although the main con­cepts are quite self-descriptive, I will explain them in a lit­tle more detail.

The Semantic Web is going mainstream

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee first envi­sioned the Web, he envi­sioned a net­work of inter­con­nected pages, acces­si­ble for humans and machines alike. Since then we have done a good job of build­ing the first, mostly ignor­ing the lat­ter. The Seman­tic Web tries to change this, by enabling con­tent cre­ators and dis­trib­u­tors to mark-up pages with extra infor­ma­tion under­stand­able for machines.

Trip to Hunan

Here are some photo’s from our trip to Xiang­tan, Hunan a while back, a wed­ding lunch back in Bei­jing and a visit to the park.