Open ICEcat Database
An Open ICEcat Database is a product database managed b ICEcat.
- Context:
- It can contain an ICEcat Product Taxonomy.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Commercial Product, Entity Database, Gfk/Etilize, IAB Taxonomy.
References
2011
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_ICEcat
- Open ICEcat is an Open Content project under the Open Content License in which a worldwide open catalogue is created for product information. Editors are participating manufacturers. The users of the product content are distributors, resellers, retailers, comparison websites or online shopping directories, enterprise resource planning systems or the manufacturers themselves.
Open ICEcat began formally in December 2005 with 20 participating IT manufacturers. Among the earliest contributors are Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba, IBM and Lenovo. As of March 2007, this number has grown to more than 90 manufacturers, including participants from consumer electronics like Sony, Philips and Kodak, and the telecom industry. On the user side, similar growth has been seen.
In January 2011 Open ICEcat has grown to some 250 manufacturers and supports 33 languages. Including English (UK & US), Russian, Spanish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, German, French, Dutch, and many others. The Open Catalogue is used by over 11.800 e-business partners. Catalogues cover IT, CE, Telecom and Office. This fast growth and worldwide coverage makes Open ICEcat by far the most successful Open Catalog.
Open ICEcat is as an open catalog, not to be confused with commercial catalogs like offered by ICEcat Inc (Full ICEcat), Gfk/Etilize and Cnet.
- Open ICEcat is an Open Content project under the Open Content License in which a worldwide open catalogue is created for product information. Editors are participating manufacturers. The users of the product content are distributors, resellers, retailers, comparison websites or online shopping directories, enterprise resource planning systems or the manufacturers themselves.
- http://icecat.biz/us/menu/services/index.htm
- OpenIcecat is a worldwide unique open catalogue in co-operation with 250+ sponsoring manufacturers and 10,000+ using channel partners. More than 30 languages are supported incl. English (UK, US), Chinese (Traditional, Simplified), Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Russian, Arabic, Italian, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Greek, Kroatian, Catalan and Georgian.
2006
- http://icecat.biz/en/menu/services/index.htm
- The OpenICEcat project is a unique open catalogue project in co-operation with manufacturers, directed at creating a worldwide free product catalogue. The open catalogue is available in xml format or url format.
- URL-format = links to datasheets and to product images. Easy-to-use in any ERP or webshop.
- XML-format = all data per product in an easy format for developers.
- The OpenICEcat project is a unique open catalogue project in co-operation with manufacturers, directed at creating a worldwide free product catalogue. The open catalogue is available in xml format or url format.