How to express shopping events in RDF

I am looking for a simple RDF representation of shopping events, that is a list of orders, each with:

Date of order
Object or service which was ordered
Shop where it was ordered
Price of the order

The GoodRelations ontology seems to be for shopping offerings but not for transactions that have actually taken place, is it?

asked 02 Dec '12, 04:01

Jakob
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Maybe model your own and use The Event Ontology. Perhaps you could still use certain properties from good relations to describe the item and price.

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answered 02 Dec '12, 21:17

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Thanks, using an event as class makes sense. I have already found eight (!) ontologies with an event class. I'd be happy about more concrete suggestions instead of "could still use certain properties".

(03 Dec '12, 07:12) Jakob

Thanks to @harschware who pointed me to a deeper look at the GoodRelations ontology. Good Relations is now aligned with schema.org. So my current solution looks like this:

A shopping event is a special kind of event. As I am modeling a Service Status Ontology anyway, it will be an instance of ssso:ServiceEvent. This way I don't need to stick to one specific event ontology or how to distinguish buying, renting, and other paid services.
The date of order can be connected to the event with http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/date. To express a duration, one can use http://schema.org/startDate and http://schema.org/endDate.
The object or service that was ordered can be connected to the event with http://schema.org/itemOffered
The shop where the object or service was bought can be connected with http://schema.org/seller.
For the price there is http://schema.org/price and http://schema.org/priceCurrency.

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answered 03 Dec '12, 07:31

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