Protocol for E-Commerce data harvesting

Many retailers operate their business through e-commerce. Some of them provide Application Program Interface (API) to their affiliate users in efforts to selling their products. As most affiliate users are members to several retailers this will lead into two problems. Firstly, an affiliate user should implement different codes suitable to the requirements of each data provider. Secondly, the response from each data provider is different. As a consequence, affiliate users need to understand data structure of each data provider. Proposed solution to these problems is by utilizing a new protocol called E-Commerce Data Harvesting (ECDH) for the purpose of e-commerce data harvesting. Using the same protocol, affiliate users can utilize the same Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to each data provider. In addition, we suggest GoodRelations ontology to support the data interoperability. This can address more industrial segments by combining GoodRelations with other ontologies. Combining both, protocol and ontology, we can establish an e-commerce data harvesting to provide smooth data interoperability.