The Vehicle Sales Ontology (VSO)

V 1.0, Release 2010-10-02

Latest version: http://purl.org/vso/ns (RDF/XML, HTML)

Last update: 2010-10-02

Author: Martin Hepp

The Vehicle Sales Ontology is a Web vocabulary for describings cars, boats, bikes, and other vehicles for e-commerce. The vocabulary is designed to be used in combination with GoodRelations, a standard vocabulary for the commercial aspects of offers for sale, rental, repair, or disposal. GoodRelations is a language (also known as "schema", "data dictionary", or "ontology") for product, price, and company data that can (1) be embedded into existing static and dynamic Web pages and that (2) can be processed by other computers. This increases the visibility of your products and services in the latest generation of search engines, recommender systems, and other novel applications.

This document is the official specification. For examples, tools, and other developer resources, please check the following related documents:

Vocabulary Page: http://purl.org/vso/ns (RDF/XML, HTML)
GoodRelations Page: http://purl.org/goodrelations/

Examples

In this section we give brief examples of how to use the Vehicle Sales Ontology in combination with GoodRelations.

Car Sales

Scenario: Miller Inc. sells the following car:

Make and Model: 2002 Chevrolet Camaro
Price: $ 11990
VIN: 2G1FP22G522155049
Drivetype: RWD
Mileage: 42000
Stock No: 155049
Transmission: 6-Speed Manual
Engine: 5.7L V8 OHV 16V
Exterior Color: red

Turtle:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#Turtle.

RDFa:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#RDFa.

Car Rental

Scenario: Miller Inc. offers the following car class for rent.

ACRISS Car Classification Code "ECMN" (a typical code for rental car categories), i.e. an Economy car, 2/4 doors, manual gearbox, no air-conditioning (e.g. Ford Fiesta or Opel Corsa)
The price is $ 50 per day.

Turtle:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#Turtle_2.

RDFa:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#RDFa_2.

Bike Rental

Scenario: Miller Inc. offers bikes for rent. The rate is 10 $ per day.

Turtle:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#Turtle_3.

RDFa:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#RDFa_3.

Canoe Rental

Scenario: Miller Inc. offers canoes for 2 - 3 paddlers for rent. The rate is 10 $ per day.

Turtle:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#Turtle_4.

RDFa:
See http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/VSO#RDFa_4.

SPARQL Queries

Scenario: Find car listings for cars with power windows, a mileage lesser or equal to 40,000 miles, and not more than two previous owners.

Note 1: The example is a bit more complex, since it is made to handle real data.
Note 2: It is relatively easy to make the query compatible with different units of measurement for the quantitative properties, but this is not shown in here.

You can try the query against the sample data provided at http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/vso/examples.rdf.

SPARQL Query:

PREFIX vso: <http://purl.org/vso/ns#>
PREFIX dbpedia: <http://dbpedia.org/resource/> 

SELECT ?dealername ?dealerwebpage ?offer ?deeplink ?price ?currency ?vin ?mileage
FROM <http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/vso/examples.rdf>
WHERE
{
?d a gr:BusinessEntity .
OPTIONAL {?d gr:legalName ?dealername } 
OPTIONAL {?d foaf:page ?dealerwebpage }
?d gr:offers ?offer .
?offer gr:hasPriceSpecification ?p .
?p gr:hasCurrencyValue ?price .
?p gr:hasCurrency ?currency .

{
 { ?offer gr:includes ?car }
 UNION
 {
  ?offer gr:includesObject ?bundle .
  ?bundle gr:typeOfGood ?car .
 }
}

?car a vso:Automobile .
OPTIONAL { ?car vso:VIN ?vin }
?car vso:feature dbpedia:Power_window .
?car vso:mileageFromOdometer ?m .
?m gr:hasUnitOfMeasurement ?unit .
?unit bif:contains "HM" .
{
 { ?m gr:hasMaxValueFloat ?mileage }
UNION
 { ?m gr:hasValueFloat ?mileage }
}
OPTIONAL { ?offer foaf:page ?deeplink }
OPTIONAL { ?car foaf:page ?deeplink }
?car vso:previousOwners ?o .
?o gr:hasValueInteger ?owners .

FILTER (?mileage <= 40000) .
FILTER (?owners <= 2) .
} 
LIMIT 10

Vehicle Sales Ontology Metadata (rdf:type owl:Ontology)

URI http://purl.org/vso/ns
rdfs:label Vehicle Sales Ontology

rdfs:comment

VSO: The Vehicle Sales Ontology

A Web vocabulary for describings cars, boats, bikes, and other vehicles for e-commerce.

Vocabulary: http://purl.org/vso/ns
Namespace: http://purl.org/vso/ns#

The Vehicle Sales Ontology is designed to be used in combination with GoodRelations, a standard vocabulary for the commercial aspects of offers for sale or rental.

See http://purl.org/goodrelations/ for more information.

dc:subject E-Commerce, E-Business, GoodRelations, Ontology, Cars, Automobiles, Boats, Bikes

dc:contributor Many class and property definitions are inspired by or based on abstracts from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

dc:rights The Vehicle Sales Ontology ontology is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license; see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. In a nutshell, you are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix/adapt the work (e.g. to import the ontology and create specializations of its elements), as long as you attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

Vehicle Sales Ontology

V 1.0, Release 2010-10-02

Examples

Car Sales

Car Rental

Bike Rental

Canoe Rental

SPARQL Queries

Table of Contents

Vehicle Sales Ontology Metadata (rdf:type owl:Ontology)

Conventions

Classes

vso:Automobile (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Bicycle (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Boat (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:BodyStyleValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:BusOrCoach (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Canoe (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:DriveWheelConfigurationValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:EmissionStandardValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:EngineTypeValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:FeatureValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:FuelQuantity (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:FuelTypeValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Kayak (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:MotorBoat (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Motorcycle (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:MotorizedBicycle (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:MotorizedRoadVehicle (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Quadracycle (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Rickshaw (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:SailingBoat (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Ship (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:SpeedInterval (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:SteeringPositionValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:TransmissionTypeValue (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Truck (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Van (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Vehicle (rdf:type owl:Class)

vso:Watercraft (rdf:type owl:Class)

Datatype Properties

vso:ACRISSCode (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:color (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:condition (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:damages (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:engineName (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:firstRegistration (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:modelDate (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:productionDate (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:rentalUsage (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

vso:VIN (rdf:type owl:DatatypeProperty)

Object Properties

vso:acceleration (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:axles (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:bodyStyle (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:cargoVolume (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:doors (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:driveWheelConfiguration (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:engineDisplacement (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:enginePower (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:engineType (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:feature (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:fuelConsumption (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:fuelEconomy (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:fuelTankVolume (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:fuelType (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:gearsTotal (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:height (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:length (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:meetsEmissionStandard (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:mileageFromOdometer (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:payload (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:previousOwners (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:referenceDistance (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:referenceFuelQuantity (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:referenceSpeeds (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:roofLoad (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:seatingCapacity (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:speed (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)

vso:steeringPosition (rdf:type owl:ObjectProperty)