Cooperations

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards(OASIS)

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information

Standards) is a not-for-profit, international consortium that drives the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. The consortium produces more Web services standards than any other organization along with standards for security, e-business, and standardization efforts in the public sector and for application-specific markets. Founded in 1993, OASIS has more than 5,000 participants representing over 600 organizations and individual members in 100 countries.

In 2005, DERI established an OASIS Technical Committee called the Semantic Execution Environment Technical Committee (SEE-TC). This committee focuses on providing guidelines, justifications and implementation directions for an execution environment for Semantic Web services. The resulting architecture will incorporate the application of semantics to service-oriented systems and will provide intelligent mechanisms for consuming Semantic Web services.

Semantic Web Science Association(SWSA)

The Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) is a non-profit organisation incorporated in Karlsruhe, Germany for the purpose of promoting and exchanging scholarly work in Semantic Web and related fields throughout the world. The association's activities are selfless; its main objectives do not concern any own economic interests.

Fulfilment of the association's objectives include, a.o.:

Supervision of the organisation of the International Semantic Web Conference series (ISWC)

The organisation and support of workshops, tutorials, or summer schools in the field of the Semantic Web

Co-operation with scientific journals related to the Semantic Web, see Elsevier's Journal of Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web

In order to realise its objectives, the association is allowed to co-operate with other scientific associations, institutions or companies, including membership in other organisations having similar objectives.

Webscience(WBS)

The Web Science Trust brings together academics, business leaders, entrepreneurs and policy makers from around the world. Its goal is to foster multidisciplinary research to study the World Wide Web and describe the issues and challenges that will shape its future use and design.

World Wide Web Consortium(W3C)

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) directed by Tim Berners-Lee, the founder of the Web, is the most important and influencial institution for steering and standardizing technologies around the World Wide Web. The W3C as roof organisation does not only consist of academic partners but also all "global players" of industry and economy such as IBM, HP, Microsoft, SAP, etc. are members of the W3C.

DERI Innsbruck and thus the Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck has joined the W3C as an affiliate member in January 2005 initiated by Prof. Dieter Fensel and Dr. Axel Polleres. In this short period of time DERI already managed to get a W3C workshop to Innsbruck. The honour to host such a workshop is even more remarkable due to the fact that this will be the first W3C workshop to be held in Austria ever.

Within its membership in the World Wide Web Consortiums DERI Innsbruck plans to influence the further developments in the areas of the Semantic Web und Semantic Web Services. Aim of the workshop on "Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services" is the definition of further directions in this area, and particularly the establishment of a dedicated W3C working group where we plan to play a significant role. The results of the WSMO working group, where DERI is currently already driving the standard proposal for such a framework within international cooperations, will serve as the basis.