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Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) Ontology Submission Request to W3C
Submitted materials
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:
- SIOC Core Ontology Specification
- SIOC Ontology: Applications and Implementation Status
- SIOC Ontology: Related Ontologies and RDF Vocabularies
- Snapshots of Namespace Documents in RDFS/OWL (ZIP Archive):
- SIOC Core Ontology Namespace [ns.rdf]
- SIOC Types Ontology Module Namespace [types.rdf]
- SIOC Services Ontology Module Namespace [services.rdf]
which is referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the SIOC Ontology Submission.
Abstract
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.
Change control
Revision and change control of the Submission shall remain with the Submitters until such time as a suitable W3C group is formed.
Intellectual property statements
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:
- Dan Brickley, Advisory Committee Representative, Asemantics S.R.L.
- Tomas Vitvar, Advisory Committee Representative, DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
- Paul Buitelaar, Advisory Committee Representative, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh
- Andreas Abecker, Advisory Committee Representative, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)
- Carlos de la Fuente, Advisory Committee Representative, Fundación CTIC (Centro Tecnológico para el Desarrollo en Asturias de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación)
- Kingsley Idehen, Advisory Committee Representative, OpenLink Software Inc.
- Charles McCathieNevile, Advisory Committee Representative, Opera Software
- Michael Wilson, Advisory Committee Representative, STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council)
- Juan Quemada, Advisory Committee Representative, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- Fausto Giunchiglia, Advisory Committee Representative, Department of Information and Communication Technology - University of Trento
- Frédérick Giasson, co-author, on behalf of non-member Zitgist LLC
- Christoph Görn, co-author
- Tom Heath, co-author
- Alexandre Passant, co-author, on behalf of non-member LaLIC at Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
- Thomas Tikwinski, Advisory Committee Representative, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
- Antonio Skarmeta, co-author, on behalf of non-member Universidad de Murcia
Copyrights
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.
Trade and service marks
The Submission request or Submission refers to the following trade and service marks (registered or not): none.
Patents
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.
Required proprietary technology
No proprietary technology is required to implement the specifications contained in this submission.
Suggested action
We suggest the Consortium publish this as a Member Submission and take it into account for appropriate standardisation activities.
Resources
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.
Contact
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).
Submitted
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