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About

This portable command line tool aims at facilitating the generation of GoodRelations documents to large or medium-sized enterprises that already support the BMEcat format (e.g. via PIM systems). The resulting output is intended for a quick and efficient publication of highly structured offers on a Web scale.

Features

The converter script consumes a BMEcat 2005 document (also downwards compatible with BMEcat 1.2) and creates a bunch of small documents including GoodRelations data. The script creates

• a sitemap file,
• a gzipped dump file (N-Triples) incorporating the whole data set,
• an offer/model file for each single offering,
• a data file including all defined product features, and
• if available, a data file describing the full proprietary catalog structure and an HTML representation thereof.

The prerequisites to run the script are:

• Python 2.X interpreter (at least 2.5 is desirable) download page
• RDFLib 3.X (3.0 or 3.1) download page
• Jinja2 templating engine download and installation

Quickstart

The basic usage of the command line tool is as follows:

python main.py [options] FILE

You'll get a pretty nice summary of the possible options if you issue the following command:

python main.py --help

Requirements

When executing on a Windows platform, the application will supposably create the most important files but will probably fail during the final process of HTML file creation. This issue is due to compabtibility problems of RDFLib with Windows, hence you have to replace RDFLib's original parser modules with the parser.py provided in the download section.

Acknowledgements

BMEcat2GoodRelations is available under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. The work on this project 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).