GoodRelations has published a free semantic search engine optimization extension for xt:Coomerce. According to the website, “This free extension module for xt:Commerce automatically adds rich data-markup to your shop pages so that search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing can display richer item previews in the search results (“Rich Snippets”) with information about prices, availability, delivery options, images, etc. This typically increases Click-Through-Rates (CTR) by up to 30%. At the same time, your shop will be more accessible for browser extensions and mobile applications.” Read more

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I have often heard people lament the lack of federated systems in the Semantic Web. Certainly, the use of URIs allows data from many different sources to link together seamlessly, and the judicious use of assertions like owl:sameAs can help fill in the gaps, but if a developer wants to do something interesting with data from more than one SPARQL endpoint, they must draw it all in from various locations before merging and linking it all locally. Where is the "webiness" in this data? Wasn’t SPARQL supposed to do all of the processing work for us? Why do we need to do this work manually?

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