Faceted product search powered by the Semantic Web

Damir Vandic, Jan-Willem van Dam, Flavius Frasincar
2012 Decision Support Systems  
This paper presents a platform for multifaceted product search using Semantic Web technology. Online shops can use a ping service to submit their RDFa annotated Web pages for processing. The platform is able to process these RDFa annotated (X)HTML pages and aggregate product information coming from different Web stores. We propose solutions for the identification of products and the mapping of the categories in this process. Furthermore, when a loose vocabulary such as the Google RDFa
more » ... is used, the platform deals with the issue of heterogeneous information (e.g., currencies, rating scales, etc.).
doi:10.1016/j.dss.2012.02.010 fatcat:o3tlqzzgrzfsneriwhmunys3ba