Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)
We, W3C Members - Asemantics S.R.L., DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Fundación CTIC (Centro Tecnológico para el Desarrollo en Asturias de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación), OpenLink Software Inc., Opera Software, STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Department of Information and Communication Technology - University of Trento - hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following documents attached hereto:
which is referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the SIOC Ontology Submission.
SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) provides the main concepts and properties required to describe information from online communities (e.g., message boards, wikis, weblogs, etc.) on the Semantic Web. The SIOC Core Ontology Specification contains a detailed description of this ontology.
Revision and change control of the Submission shall remain with the Submitters until such time as a suitable W3C group is formed.
The statements below concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and Patents, have been made by the following people on behalf of themselves and their affiliated organisations:
Each organisation, respectively, hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any of its 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, each of these organisations 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 organisations further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
The Submission request or Submission refers to the following trade and service marks (registered or not): none.
Asemantics S.R.L., DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Fundación CTIC (Centro Tecnológico para el Desarrollo en Asturias de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación), OpenLink Software Inc., Opera Software, STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Department of Information and Communication Technology - University of Trento, Zitgist LLC, LaLIC at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Universidad de Murcia and individual co-authors all 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 organisations regarding the SIOC Ontology.
No proprietary technology is required to implement the specifications contained in this submission.
We suggest the Consortium publish this as a Member Submission and take it into account for appropriate standardisation activities.
To help with this work each submitting organisation expects, but does not commit, to be able to provide customary resources (Working Group participants, editors and chairs) according to each submitting company's ability.
Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to: Uldis Bojārs or John Breslin from DERI, NUI Galway (uldis.bojars@deri.org, john.breslin@deri.org).
this 12th day of June, 2007,
Dan Brickley, Asemantics S.R.L.,
Tomas Vitvar, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland,
Paul Buitelaar, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh,
Andreas Abecker, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI),
Thomas Tikwinski, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft,
Carlos de la Fuente, Fundación CTIC (Centro Tecnológico para el Desarrollo en Asturias de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación),
Kingsley Idehen, OpenLink Software Inc.,
Charles McCathieNevile, Opera Software,
Michael Wilson, STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council),
Juan Quemada, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Fausto Giunchiglia, Department of Information and Communication Technology - University of Trento