In this Nodalities Podcast, I speak with Jay Myers from Best Buy about how he and his team are working within the retail giant to better harness their data. Jay tells us about his use of blogs and RDFa to better manage “open-box” products returned to Best Buy’s many stores in an effort to surface deals to the public and make savings on otherwise costly problems.

Jay also explains how Best Buy are publishing the machine-readable data out on the public web and touches on the next steps Best Buy will be taking. He also calls on the Semantic Web community to take an active role in promoting work like this by voting for his panel at South by Southwest, which you can see here.

Jay Myers is a Lead Web Development Engineer for Best Buy, and is an active supporter of the GoodRelations vocabulary for ecommerce, utilizing it for modeling consumer products, stores, and services in both RDF/XML and RDFa. For more information, you can read his blog or catch him on Twitter.