Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)

OWL Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S)

We, W3C members France Telecom, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Network Inference, Nokia, SRI International, Stanford University, Toshiba Corporation, and University of Southampton hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document(s) attached hereto.

Expository documents:

OWL ontologies:

which collectively are referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the OWL-S submission.

Abstract

This submission contains a proposal for a Web Services description language, the Web Ontology Language for Services (OWL-S), which builds on Semantic Web technology developed at W3C. OWL-S is an OWL-based Web service ontology, which supplies a core set of markup language constructs for describing the properties and capabilities of Web services in unambiguous, computer-intepretable form. OWL-S markup of Web services will facilitate fuller automation of Web service tasks, such as Web service discovery, execution, composition and interoperation.

Change control

The authors expect to continue evolution of OWL-S until such time as a W3C Semantic Web Services working group is formed. After that time, we would expect future versions to be produced by W3C process.

Intellectual property Rights

The below statements concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and Patents, have been made by the following people on behalf of their affiliated organizations:

Arthur Barstow, Advisory Committee Representative, Nokia
Mark Burstein, co-author, on behalf of non-member BBN Technologies
James Hendler, Advisory Committee Representative, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland
Vincent Marcatté, Advisory Committee Representative, France Telecom
David Martin, Advisory Committee Representative, SRI International
Drew McDermott, co-author, on behalf of non-member Yale University
Deborah L. McGuinness, co-author and Advisory Committee Representative, Stanford University
Sheila McIlraith, co-author, on behalf of non-member University of Toronto (*)
Jeff Pollock, Advisory Committee Representative, Network Inference
David De Roure, Advisory Committee Representative, University of Southampton
Mark Skall, Advisory Committee Representative, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Katia Sycara, co-author, on behalf of non-member Carnegie Mellon University
Hideki Yoshida, Advisory Committee Representative, Toshiba Corporation

(*) Sheila McIlraith was affiliated with Stanford University (Knowledge Systems Laboratory) for a substantial part of the time that she worked on OWL-S.

Please note that additional authors are listed on the individual HTML technical documents included with this submission.

Copyrights

BBN Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, France Telecom, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Network Inference, Nokia, SRI International, Stanford University, Toshiba Corporation, University of Toronto, University of Southampton, and Yale University each 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 of these organizations 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 of these organizations further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.

Trade and Service Marks

BBN Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, France Telecom, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Network Inference, Nokia, SRI International, Stanford University, Toshiba Corporation, University of Toronto, University of Southampton, and Yale University agree that the trade and service marks that are associated with and identify this specific submission (OWL Web Ontology Language for Services and OWL-S) will be governed by the W3C Trademark and Servicemark License.

Patents

BBN Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University, France Telecom, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Network Inference, Nokia, SRI International, Stanford University, Toshiba Corporation, University of Toronto, University of Southampton, and Yale University 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.

Suggested action

We suggest that the Consortium consider this as an input for work in a new Semantic Web Services working group at W3C.

Resources

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.

Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to the authors.

Submitted

this 2nd day of November, 2004,

Arthur Barstow, Nokia
James Hendler, Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab at the University of Maryland
Mark Skall, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Jeff Pollock, Network Inference
David Martin, SRI International
Vincent Marcatte, France Telecom
Deborah L. McGuinness, Stanford University
Hideki Yoshida, Toshiba Corporation
David De Roure, University of Southampton