W3C Submissions

Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)

We, W3C members Exody E-Business Intelligence GmbH and Intershop AG, hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-shoplogfileformat-20001115

which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the "SHOP LOG FILE" submission.

Abstract

Exody E-Business Intelligence GmbH has created a new log file format which logs all visitor and customer movements and revenue-related activities in online shops. Analysis of this data reveals the shop's strengths and weaknesses. The shop log file is written by the shop, not by the web server.

The log file format is essentially compatible to W3C Extended Log File Format.

Knowing that there is a strong interest in analyzing online shops we hope that this specification will be of use.

Intellectual Property Rights

Declaration of Exody E-Business Intelligence GmbH:
We hold no related patents, trademarks or copyrights to the submission. The specification of the recommended log file format is freely available.
Declaration of Intershop AG:
We hold no related patents, trademarks or copyrights to the submission. The specification of the recommended log file format is freely available.

Names

The following is a registered mark referred to in this request or the submission: ShopSuxess is a trademark of Exody E-Business Intelligence GmbH

Specification

The submission may distributed within the membership of the W3C free of any fee. The submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee under the redistribution terms expressed in the W3C copyright statement.

Suggested Action

Exody E-Business Intelligence GmbH believes strongly in the need for a standardized protocol to offer online shop owners comprehensive analyses of the shopping behaviour of their customers.

We propose that the W3C evaluate and consider the SHOP LOG FILE specification. Exody further suggests that the SHOP LOG FILE specification may be used as the basis for the future W3C specifications in the area of log files.

Resources

To help with this work, we expect to be able to provide the following to the Consortium:

Change Control


Should any changes be required to the document, we expect to have control over all future versions of anything looking remotely like this specification.

Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to: Exody E-Business Intelligence GmbH

Erik Moeser
Manager Technology Partners
Mergenthalerallee 55-59
65760 Eschborn Germany
Mail moeser@exody.net
Fon +49 6196/9599-118

Submitted

September 01, 2000

Erik Moeser, Exody E-Business Intelligence GmbH, moeser@exody.net