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URI http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama
rdfs:subClassOf gr:ProductOrService, http://schema.org/Product
rdfs:label Birmingham, Alabama (as a class or brand name of products of services)
Translation(s):
Birmingham, Alabama@af;
Birmingham (Alabama)@an;
Beormingaham (Alabama)@ang;
برمنغهام (ألاباما)@ar;
برمنجهام (الاباما)@arz;
Birmingham (Alabama)@ast;
Birminqem (Alabama)@az;
برمینقم، آلاباما@azb;
Бирмингем (Алабама)@ba;
Бірмінгем (Алабама)@be;
is rdfs:domain of gr:category gr:color gr:condition gr:depth gr:hasEAN_UCC-13 gr:hasGTIN-14 gr:hasMPN gr:hasManufacturer gr:hasStockKeepingUnit gr:height gr:isAccessoryOrSparePartFor gr:isConsumableFor gr:isSimilarTo gr:weight gr:width
is rdfs:range of gr:includes gr:isAccessoryOrSparePartFor gr:isConsumableFor gr:isSimilarTo
Note: This is a generic list. Some of the properties may not be applicable to this particular type of object.
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One of the most powerful usages of the class definitions from this site is to describe the type of your page and product for the schema.org product markup in Microdata syntax much more precisely.
Simply add the full URI of a class from this site, e.g. http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama as an additional type as follows:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product">
<link itemprop="additionalType" href="http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama" />
<!-- other schema.org properties go in here -->
</div>
Note: In HTML5, it is valid to use the <link> element in the body of a HTML document.
Here is a complete example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>An offer to sell a / some Birmingham,_Alabama</title>
</head>
<body>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Product" itemid="#product">
<link itemprop="additionalType" href="http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama" />
<span itemprop="name">.. a short name for the object ...</span>
Product description:
<span itemprop="description">... a longer description ...</span>
<div itemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer" itemid="#offer">
<span itemprop="price">$19.99</span>
<link itemprop="availability" href="http://schema.org/InStock" />In stock
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
@prefix pto: <http://www.productontology.org/id/> .
@prefix gr: <http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#> .
@prefix foo: <http://example.com/> .
# The object
foo:myObject a <http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama> ;
a gr:SomeItems ;
gr:name "... a short name for the object ..."@en ;
gr:description "... a longer description ..."@en .
# The agent (person or company) who is offering it
foo:ACMECorp a gr:BusinessEntity ;
gr:legalName "ACME Corp" ;
gr:offers foo:Offer .
# The offer to sell it
foo:Offer a gr:Offering ;
gr:includes foo:myObject;
foaf:page <http://URI_of_the_page_containing_the_offer.com>;
gr:hasBusinessFunction gr:Sell ;
gr:validFrom "2011-01-24T00:00:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
gr:validThrough "2011-12-24T00:00:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
gr:hasPriceSpecification
[ a gr:UnitPriceSpecification ;
gr:hasCurrency "USD"^^xsd:string ;
gr:hasCurrencyValue "19.99"^^xsd:float ;
gr:validThrough "2011-12-24T00:00:00+01:00"^^xsd:dateTime ] .
Note: Replace gr:SomeItems (http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#SomeItems) by gr:Individual if you are describing a unique object of that kind (e.g. antique furniture).
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html version="HTML+RDFa 1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
<title>An offer to sell a / some Birmingham,_Alabama</title>
</head>
<body>
<div xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
xmlns:gr="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#"
xmlns:pto="http://www.productontology.org/id/"
xmlns:foo="http://example.com/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#">
<!-- The agent (person or company) who is offering it -->
<div about="#ACMECorp" typeof="gr:BusinessEntity">
<div property="gr:legalName">ACME Corp</div>
<div rel="gr:offers">
<!-- The offer to sell it -->
<div about="#offer" typeof="gr:Offering">
<div rel="gr:hasBusinessFunction" resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Sell"></div>
<div rel="gr:includes">
<!-- The object -->
<div about="#myObject" typeof="http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama">
<div rel="rdf:type" resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#SomeItems"></div>
<div property="gr:description" xml:lang="en">... a longer description ...</div>
<div property="gr:name" xml:lang="en">.. a short name for the object ...</div>
</div>
</div>
<div rel="foaf:page" resource="http://URI_of_the_page_containing_the_offer"></div>
<div rel="gr:hasPriceSpecification">
<div typeof="gr:UnitPriceSpecification">
<div property="gr:hasCurrency" content="USD" datatype="xsd:string">$ </div>
<div property="gr:hasCurrencyValue" datatype="xsd:float">19.99</div>
<div property="gr:validThrough" content="2011-12-24T00:00:00+01:00"
datatype="xsd:dateTime"></div>
</div>
</div>
<div property="gr:validFrom" content="2011-01-24T00:00:00+01:00"
datatype="xsd:dateTime"></div>
<div property="gr:validThrough" content="2011-12-24T00:00:00+01:00"
datatype="xsd:dateTime"></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Note: Replace gr:SomeItems (http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#SomeItems) by gr:Individual if you are describing a unique object of that kind (e.g. antique furniture).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<rdf:RDF xmlns:gr="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#"
xmlns:pto="http://www.productontology.org/id/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#"
xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
xmlns:foo="http://example.com/"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
<!-- The object -->
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://example.com/myObject">
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama"/>
<rdf:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#SomeItems"/>
<gr:name xml:lang="en">... a short name for the object ...</gr:name>
<gr:description xml:lang="en">... a longer description ...</gr:description>
</rdf:Description>
<!-- The agent (person or company) who is offering it -->
<gr:BusinessEntity rdf:about="http://example.com/ACMECorp">
<gr:legalName>ACME Corp</gr:legalName>
<gr:offers rdf:resource="http://example.com/Offer" />
</gr:BusinessEntity>
<!-- The offer to sell it -->
<gr:Offering rdf:about="http://example.com/Offer">
<gr:includes rdf:resource="http://example.com/myObject" />
<foaf:page rdf:resource="http://URI_of_the_page_containing_the_offer"/>
<gr:hasBusinessFunction rdf:resource="http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#Sell"/>
<gr:validFrom rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">
2011-01-24T00:00:00+01:00</gr:validFrom>
<gr:validThrough rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">
2011-12-24T00:00:00+01:00</gr:validThrough>
<gr:hasPriceSpecification>
<gr:UnitPriceSpecification>
<gr:hasCurrency rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">USD</gr:hasCurrency>
<gr:hasCurrencyValue rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#float">19.99</gr:hasCurrencyValue>
<gr:validThrough rdf:datatype="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime">
2011-12-24T00:00:00+01:00</gr:validThrough>
</gr:UnitPriceSpecification>
</gr:hasPriceSpecification>
</gr:Offering>
</rdf:RDF>
Note: Replace gr:SomeItems (http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#SomeItems) by gr:Individual if you are describing a unique object of that kind (e.g. antique furniture).
prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
prefix pto: <http://www.productontology.org/id/>
prefix gr: <http://purl.org/goodrelations/v1#>
prefix foo: <http://example.com/>
# Find the cheapest offer for a Birmingham,_Alabama
SELECT * WHERE{
?company gr:offers ?offer .
?offer a gr:Offering .
?offer gr:hasBusinessFunction gr:Sell .
OPTIONAL {?offer rdfs:label ?label } .
OPTIONAL {?offer gr:name ?label } .
OPTIONAL {?offer rdfs:comment ?label } .
OPTIONAL {?offer gr:description ?label } .
?offer gr:hasPriceSpecification ?p .
?p a gr:UnitPriceSpecification .
?p gr:hasCurrency ?currency .
?p gr:hasCurrencyValue ?price .
?offer gr:includes ?product .
?product a <http://www.productontology.org/id/Birmingham,_Alabama> .
}
ORDER BY (?price)
LIMIT 10
You can also use the class definitions from this site for better describing the type of your page or product for the Facebook Open Graph Protocol.
Simply define the namespace prefix pto: in the <html> element of your page
<html version="HTML+RDFa 1.1"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
xmlns:pto="http://www.productontology.org/id/"
>and use the compact URI (CURIE) pto:Birmingham,_Alabama in combination with og:type as follows:
<meta property="og:type" content="pto:Birmingham,_Alabama"/>
A complete example is here.
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martin Hepp
E-Business and Web Science Research Group
Chair of General Management and E-Business
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
D-85579 Neubiberg, Germany
Phone: +49 89 6004-4217
eMail: mhepp(at)computer.org (preferred mode of communication)
Web: http://www.heppnetz.de/
Web: http://www.unibw.de/ebusiness/
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The work on The Product Types Ontology has been supported by the German Federal Ministry of Research (BMBF) by a grant under the KMU Innovativ program as part of the Intelligent Match project (FKZ 01IS10022B).
Wikipedia: Birmingham, Alabama, available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama.
Hepp, Martin: GoodRelations: An Ontology for Describing Products and Services Offers on the Web, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (EKAW2008), Acitrezza, Italy, September 29 - October 3, 2008, Springer LNCS, Vol 5268, pp. 332-347.
Hepp, Martin; Siorpaes, Katharina; Bachlechner, Daniel: Harvesting Wiki Consensus: Using Wikipedia Entries as Vocabulary for Knowledge Management, IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 54-65, Sept-Oct 2007.
rdfs:comment
Birmingham () is a city in the north central region of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2022 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 196,910, down 2% from the 2020 census, making it Alabama's third-most populous city after Huntsville and Montgomery.The broader Birmingham metropolitan area had a 2020 population of 1,115,289, and is the largest metropolitan area in Alabama as well as the 50th-most populous in the United States. Birmingham serves as an important regional hub and is associated with the Deep South, Piedmont, and Appalachian regions of the nation. Birmingham was founded in 1871, during the post–Civil War Reconstruction period, through the merger of three pre-existing farm towns, notably, Elyton. It grew from there, annexing many more of its smaller neighbors, into an industrial and railroad transportation center with a focus on mining, the iron and steel industry, and railroading. Birmingham was named after Birmingham, England, one of the UK's major industrial cities. Most of the original settlers who founded Birmingham were of English ancestry. The city may have been planned as a place where cheap, non-unionized, and often African-American labor from rural Alabama could be employed in the city's steel mills and blast furnaces, giving it a competitive advantage over industrial cities in the Midwest and Northeast. From its founding through the end of the 1960s, Birmingham was a primary industrial center of the South. The pace of Birmingham's growth during the period from 1881 through 1920 earned its nicknames The Magic City and The Pittsburgh of the South. Much like Pittsburgh, Birmingham's major industries were iron and steel production, plus a major component of the railroading industry, where rails and railroad cars were both manufactured in Birmingham. In the field of railroading, the two primary hubs of railroading in the Deep South were nearby Atlanta and Birmingham, beginning in the 1860s and continuing through to the present day. The economy diversified during the later half of the twentieth century. Though the manufacturing industry maintains a strong presence in Birmingham, other businesses and industries such as banking, telecommunications, transportation, electrical power transmission, medical care, college education, and insurance have risen in stature. Mining in the Birmingham area is no longer a major industry with the exception of coal mining. Birmingham ranks as one of the most important business centers in the Southeastern United States and is also one of the largest banking centers in the United States. In addition, the Birmingham area serves as headquarters to two Fortune 500 companies: Regions Financial and Vulcan Materials Company, along with multiple other Fortune 1000 companies. In higher education, Birmingham has been the location of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (formerly the Medical College of Alabama) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Dentistry since 1947. In 1969 the University of Alabama at Birmingham was established, one of three main campuses of the University of Alabama System. Birmingham is also home to three private institutions: Samford University, Birmingham-Southern College, and Miles College. Between these colleges and universities, the Birmingham area has major colleges of medicine, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, law, engineering, and nursing. Birmingham is also the headquarters of the Southeastern Conference, one of the major U.S. collegiate athletic conferences. (Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama)
Note: The extraction of the abstract from the Wikipedia page may sometimes yield imperfect results. We are improving the algorithm regularly.