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Submitted Materials

W3C Member Institut Mines-Télécom hereby submits to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document attached hereto:

  1. VSSo: A Vehicle Signal and Attribute Ontology

which is referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the VSSo Submission.

Abstract

VSSo (or VSS ontology) is an ontology for describing automotive attributes, branches and signals (sensors and actuators). It is based on the Vehicle Signal Specification developed by the GENIVI Alliance and it makes use of the SSN/SOSA modeling pattern described in the W3C Semantic Sensor Network Ontology for representing the vehicule signals.

Intellectual Property Statements

Institut Mines-Télécom and other Authors, Authoring Organization and Intellectual Property owner of the VSSo Submission hereby provides the required information regarding copyright, trademark, patent licensing, liability and warranty terms.

Copyrights

The authors hereby grant to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any authors copyrights on 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 in the future, the authors grant 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. The authors further agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.

Trade and Service Marks

The Submission request or Submission refers to the following trade and service marks (registered or not): VSSo.

The authors agree that the trade and service marks that are associated with and identify this specific VSSo Submission will be governed by the W3C Trademark and Servicemark License.

Patents

W3C Member Institut Mines-Télécom agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 15 September 2020 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.

The organization I represent as a contributor to this Submission agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 15 September 2020 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.

Required proprietary technology

Proprietary technology is not required to implement the VSSo Specification. It is built upon W3C Recommendations including RDF.

Suggested action

We suggest that the Consortium post the VSSo Submission to be used as a resource for the W3C Auto Community. As such it can be used for reference, or at some point in the future, be incorporated into new work initiated by the community.

Resources

To help with this work, we expect to be able to provide one non-resident document editor to the Consortium.

Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to: (Raphael Troncy, EURECOM, mailto:raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr).

Submitted

this (24th day of October, 2020),

(Raphael Troncy, Institut Mines-Télécom)