Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)
We, W3C members:
hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following documents attached hereto:
which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the OWL1-1 submission.
OWL 1.1 extends the W3C OWL Web Ontology Language with a small but useful set of features that have been requested by users, for which effective reasoning algorithms are now available, and that OWL tool developers are willing to support. The new features include extra syntactic sugar, addition property and qualified cardinality constructors, extended datatype support, simple metamodelling, and extended annotations.
The authors expect to continue evolution of OWL 1.1 until such time as a W3C working group is formed. After that time, we would expect future versions to be produced by W3C process.
The below statements concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and Patents, have been made by the following people on behalf of themselves and their affiliated organizations:
Each organization, respectively, hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of its copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the W3C document licenses.
Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, each organization grants a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Each organization further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
We agree that the trade and service marks that are associated with and identify this specific submission (OWL 1.1) will be governed by the W3C Trademark and Servicemark License.
The submitters agree to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
Additionally, all co-authors claim to have no personal knowledge of any IPR claims held by their respective organizations regarding OWL 1.1.
We suggest that the Consortium consider this as a starting point for work in a new working group.
To help with this work, each submitting member organization expects, but does not commit, to be able to provide one member of the working group. Other of the creators also expect to be able to serve on the working group.
In addition, the following member organisations have expressed support for this submission, and expect, but do not commit, to be able to provide one member of the working group:
The OWL 1.1 extension to OWL is the result of extensive discussions with users of OWL, implementers of OWL tools, and theoreticians. In particular, the authors and submitters would like to acknowledge the contribution made by attendees of the OWL: Experiences and Directions workshops in Galway, Ireland ( 11-12 November, 2005 ) and Athens, Georgia, USA ( 10-11 November, 2006 ).
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to the authors.
this 19th day of December, 2006,