[Developers] [Data-modeling] products domain

[Eric Hanson]

Oops...forwarding this to the data-modeling list.
Eric

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Hi,

I do contract web work for a natural foods distributor called Azure
Standard, located in Dufur, OR.  They distribute over 8000 products,
many of which are food, with a focus on sustainability and health.  They
distribute to stores and bulk consumers in the western US and Canada.

We're working on the next version of our website, and are using RDF to
describe products and create a product search interface that makes use
of RDF's flexible and multi-faceted structure.  We're developing an
ontology of product characteristics like organic, wheat free,
celiac-safe, sugar free, etc, and also a set of classes like fruits,
grains, nuts, vegetables, processed foods, beverages, etc.

I'm very impressed with Freebase, and would like to align our product
description work with whatever is being done here in Freebase.

Are there any plans to build a centralized product database?  Is there
something existing or in the works that we could integrate with?  Might
we be able to contribute some types and properties?

Thanks,
Eric

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