Dear Abdul,

It may help to refocus the question, as it is a little ambiguous. Open Data by default is openly and freely available without barriers (other than sufficient metadata providing context for the correct re-use).

The data you are looking for may well be proprietary and you may need to pay the owner/supplier (i.e. Not open data), but not necessarily.

I suggest you also try looking at the various working groups under the Open Knowledge Foundation. They have "open data" advocates under various topics (economics, government, maps etc) so they may well deal with the topics you care about, and hopefully have already cracked access to the data you need.

Best of luck, and if you find the solution, please post it here

Dear Ivo,

Thank you for your suggestions.

Hi Abdul,

there is an effort called "Linked Open Commerce", http://linkedopencommerce.com/, which uses data from various sources, annotates them with the GoodRelations ontology and publishes them via a SPARQL endpoint.

If you are familiar with Semantic Web technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL), I believe you could use this data for you research.

Please note that the LOC data is data about products, companies, buyers, sellers, but there is no data about concrete transactions. I was unable to determine what kind of data do you actually need, but I guess LOC can help you.

Best regards,

Milos.

I got the data from the electronic trading platform by writing the script (parser), which collected the necessary data from the b2b-trading platform and formed in CSv file. Here is my contribution to the detailed description http://uecs.ru/teoriya-upravleniya/item/2399-2013-10-05-06-32-40

Dear all,

Thanks for the suggestions.

Hi Kseniya,

It will be very helpful if you can give me the link to the document in English version. I managed to translate the texts, but not the images. I believed images in this document could help me to understand your amazing work.

Hi Milos,

I was trying to click a few links that supposed to point to the examples, but this error came up : (Resource /demo_queries/search.vsp not found. Access to page is forbidden) or (404 Not Found).

I am currently working on AliBaba, one of the biggest B2B portal and since last year, they are providing an open access / web services platform for the developer to develop any application and there are lots of APIs available. Unfortunately, the website has been completely written in Chinese language (Mandrin) and the system has a very strict rule where they need China mobile number and China Paypal account to proceed with the registration. I am working a few colleagues to get the access now.

I am very pleased if someone could help me to get through with the access.

B2B - Alibaba :

http://www.1688.com

(A China version of AliBaba - it provides access to their open platform - http://open.1688.com)

http://www.alibaba.com

(A global version of AliBaba - no access to their open platform)

B2C - Taobao :

http://www.taobao.com

(The largest B2C portal in China - it provides access to their open platform - http://open.taobao.com)

For Java developer, APIs and documentations are available for download.

Best regards,

Hadi

Hi Abdul, please give me your mail, I will make the description to images and I will try to explain some points

Hi Abdul,

the LOC dataset is now loaded as part of the LOD2 dataset (from this project http://lod2.eu/), and is available on this Virtuoso instance: http://lod.openlinksw.com/.

You can browse the data with the Facet browser, or use the SPARQL endpoint.

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Milos.

Hi Kseniya, my email address is [email protected].

Hi Milos, thanks for your help! :)