[Developers] products domain

[Jason Douglas]

We're definitely interested in fleshing out the products domain.   
We've started thinking about the schemas a little, but honestly  
having real-world uses of it would really help.  By all means, I  
encourage you to try out types and properties in your user domain and  
we'd be happy to offer advice and feedback along the way (take  
advantage of the data-modeling at freebase.com list).

For example, one area of the products domain that I'm curious to see  
how it works out is the whole lumping of products as most people  
would think of things (Hamlet, iPod) vs. the splitting by individual  
SKUs (every published edition of Hamlet, every color or branded  
version of the iPod, etc.).

-jason


On Oct 4, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Eric Hanson wrote:

> 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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