Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)
We, W3C member (Lucent Technologies) hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:
which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the DAML+OIL submission.
DAML+OIL is a semantic markup language for Web resources. It builds on earlier W3C standards such as RDF and RDF Schema, and extends these languages with richer modelling primitives. DAML+OIL provides modelling primitives commonly found in frame-based languages. DAML+OIL (March 2001) extends DAML+OIL (December 2000) with values from XML Schema datatypes. The language has a clean and well defined semantics.
Peter F. Patel-Schneider has no personal knowledge of any patents or patent applications owned by Lucent Technologies, Inc., which apply to the DAML+OIL submission. Lucent Technologies, Inc., may own patents or patent applications which apply to the DAML+OIL submission. Lucent Technologies, Inc., will abide by its licensing practice described in a letter on file with the W3C dated March 1, 1999 with respect to any patents required to implement a W3C recommendation based on the DAML+OIL submission.
I, Frank van Harmelen, offer a license to the DAML+OIL submission under the suggested W3C Royalty-Free Patent License Declaration of 6 September 2001, available at http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rf-license.html.
I, Lynn Andrea Stein, offer a license to the DAML+OIL submission under the suggested W3C Royalty-Free Patent License Declaration of 6 September 2001, available at http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rf-license.html.
I, Deborah L. McGuinness, offer a license to the DAML+OIL submission under the suggested W3C Royalty-Free Patent License Declaration of 6 September 2001, available at http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rf-license.html.
I, Richard E. Fikes, offer a license to the DAML+OIL submission under the suggested W3C Royalty-Free Patent License Declaration of 6 September 2001, available at http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rf-license.html.
I, Ian R. Horrocks, offer a license to the DAML+OIL submission under the suggested W3C Royalty-Free Patent License Declaration of 6 September 2001, available at http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rf-license.html.
MIT agrees to the Suggested W3C Royalty-Free Patent License Declaration of 6 September 2001, available at http://www.w3.org/2001/09/rf-license.html.
The following are registered marks referred to in this request or the submission: None known.
Lucent Technologies, Inc., hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any Lucent Technologies, Inc., copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as a right and license of the same scope under such copyrights to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of the contribution. Lucent Technologies, Inc., further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
I, Frank van Harmelen hereby grant to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of my copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as 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. I further agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
I, Lynn Andrea Stein hereby grant to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of my copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as 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. I further agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
I, Deborah L. McGuinness hereby grant to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of my copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as 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. I further agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
I, Richard E. Fikes, hereby grant to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of my copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as 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. I further agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
I, Ian R. Horrocks, hereby grant to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of my copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as 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. I further agree that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
MIT hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any MIT copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as 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. MIT further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
The following points should be noted as regards licensable technology involved in any third party implementations of the technology specified in the submission: No problems known
We suggest that the Consortium consider this as a starting point for work in the Web Ontology working group.
To help with this work, Lucent Technologies expects, but does not commit to, to be able to provide one member of the Web Ontology working group. Other of the creators also expect to be able to serve on the working group.
Should any changes be required to the document, we would expect future versions to be produced by W3C process.
Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to: Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Bell Labs Research (pfps@research.bell-labs.com)
this 12th day of September, 2001,
Igor Faynberg