Share the ontology in XML-based trading architectures
Communications of the ACM
Ontological engineering for B2B E-commerce
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
Product Schema Integration for Electronic Commerce-A Synonym Comparison Approach
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Ontologies and Electronic Commerce
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Product Data Integration in B2B E-Commerce
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Call for Participants: The E-Commerce Product Classification Challenge
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Preliminary Ontology Modeling for B2B Content Integration
DEXA '01 Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Ontology Integration Tasks in Business-to-Business E-Commerce
Proceedings of the 14th International conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems: engineering of intelligent systems
Coding Standards Benefiting Product and Service Information in E-commerce
HICSS '02 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'02)-Volume 8 - Volume 8
Integration of product ontologies for B2B marketplaces: a preview
ACM SIGecom Exchanges
Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
Ontologies: A Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
Communications of the ACM - Hacking and innovation
Possible Ontologies: How Reality Constrains the Development of Relevant Ontologies
IEEE Internet Computing
Modeling considerations for product ontology
CoMoGIS'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Advances in Conceptual Modeling: theory and practice
Encoding classifications into lightweight ontologies
ESWC'06 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on The Semantic Web: research and applications
Scope of ontological annotation in e-commerce
International Journal of Business Information Systems
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Web pages representing offerings of products and services are a major source of data for Semantic Web-based e-commerce. This data could be useful for numerous applications, e.g. (1) more precise product search engines and shopping bots, (2) aggregation or enrichment of multi-vendor catalogs using public product descriptions, or (3) the automated discovery of additional alternatives based on the combination of multiple items. While there are already some ontologies for products and services available, they are very large in size (20-70,000 classes), and thus not always suitable as ontology imports. In this paper, we take a different approach: We represent the semantics of offerings on the Web using a very lightweight ontology of datatype properties in combination with popular classifications like UNSPSC and eCl@ss. We then demonstrate how this representation can be mapped easily to comprehensive ontologies for products and services like eClassOWL. Our approach provides a straightforward solution for annotating offerings on the Web while avoiding the overhead of importing fully-fledged products and services ontologies in every single annotation. We can show that our proposal has technical advantages and eliminates legal problems when reusing existing standards.