+1 Regards, Ate
On 10/11/10 16:11, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Hi, I think we're ready to vote on the http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/StanbolProposal now, copy included below. This is TPFKAF - The Project Formerly Known As FOO. Please cast your votes: [ ] +1 Accept Stanbol for incubation [ ] +0 Don't care [ ] -1 Reject for the following reason: The vote is open for at least 72 hours. Thanks! -Bertrand = Apache Stanbol incubation proposal = == Abstract == Apache Stanbol is a modular software stack and reusable set of components for semantic content management. == Proposal == Stanbol components are meant to be accessed over RESTful interfaces to provide semantic services for content management. The current code is written in Java and based on the OSGi modularization framework, but other server-side languages might be used as well. Applications include extending existing content management systems with (internal or external) semantic services, and creating new types of content management systems with semantics at their core. The architecture of the current (alpha-level) code consists of four layers: * Persistence: services that store (or cache) semantic information and make it searchable * Lifting: services that add semantic information to “non-semantic” pieces of content * Knowledge models and reasoning: services that enhance the semantic information * Interaction: intelligent user interface management and generation == Background == Stanbol comes out of the IKS project (Interactive Knowledge Stack, http://iks-project.eu/), a research project funded by the European Community (EC) which aims to create a semantic content management software stack. One of the goals of IKS is for its software to survive the 4-year funding period of the EC, which ends in 2012. Developing its code in the open at the Apache Software Foundation, and growing a community before IKS funding runs out, is the best way to ensure the sustainability of the Stanbol software. For more background information, some articles and tutorials on FISE, which was the first usable IKS module, can be found in the “FISE links” section of http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/FISE == Rationale == Content Management Systems (CMS) can benefit from semantic add-ons in a number of ways, including more intelligent linking, automatic or semi-automatic tagging of content, enhanced user interactions based on intelligent and dynamically adaptable user scenario modeling, etc. However, many CMS vendors and developers are not aware of or skilled enough in semantic technologies to make effective use of them. Research in semantic technologies often happens in academic circles which might not make their findings available in a way that’s easily consumable by today’s CMS vendors and developers. Some big companies are using semantic technologies behind the scenes to provide powerful services, but that technology is usually not accessible to smaller vendors. Stanbol aims to bridge these gaps by providing CMS vendors and developers with easy to integrate semantic components that add value to their offerings. At the same time, more experimental advanced semantic applications will be built on the Stanbol stack, with the medium-term goal of enabling pure semantic-based content management and other applications. == Initial Goals == * Import the existing IKS code. * Clean up as needed to take advantage of Apache infrastructure (Hudson continuous builds, etc.) * Replace up any dependencies that do not fulfill Apache licensing criteria. * Create the Stanbol website and migrate IKS website/wiki information to it as needed. * Make a first release and publicize it to start growing the community. == Current Status == === Meritocracy === As IKS is an EC research project with funding, it does not formally operate as a meritocracy. However, due to the open source way of working adopted by the consortium, an informal meritocracy has emerged within IKS. We estimate that adapting to the ASF’s meritocratic way of working will be easy for the initial set of Stanbol committers, as the differences to the current way of working are not dramatic. === Community === The IKS project plan includes an important effort to build a community around the software that it produces. Several community workshops have already taken place, attended by more than 40 European CMS developers and vendors. See http://wiki.iks-project.eu/index.php/Workshops for more info. A community is emerging around IKS, and moving to the Apache project governance model should help grow it - also by reassuring community members that the software will continue to be available and maintainable once the IKS EC funding runs out. === Core Developers === The IKS consortium consists of seven academic research groups and six “industrial partners”, companies active in the CMS space. See http://iks-project.eu/team/team for the list. The current IKS software has been written by a group of about a dozen developers from this consortium, with few external contributions until now. Members of the Clerezza community have contributed some key pieces, and ties between both communities are strong. === Alignment === As many Apache projects have something to do with content management, obvious synergies exist, which should allow us to grow the community from inside the ASF as well as from the outside. == Known Risks == === Orphaned Products === The IKS code as it stands now might be orphaned when the EC funding of IKS runs out at the end of 2012. That’s why we want to move to Apache now, to have a bit more than two years to make Stanbol independent of its EC funding. === Inexperience with Open Source === The IKS team includes a number of very experienced Open Source developers, along with people doing their first open source contributions. Since the IKS consortium started writing code early this year, we have had ample opportunity to bring everybody up to speed as to how open source works, and we’re confident that the initial committers will quickly adapt to the ASF’s way of working. === Homogeneous Developers === The current developers are spread amongst the IKS consortium partners, with no dominant company or organization. === Reliance on Salaried Developers === Until the end of 2012, the work of IKS consortium members is funded by the consortium, so there is a “common boss” problem, and we can assume that most or all of that work is salaried. Moving software development to the ASF, and especially growing a community to include committers from outside the IKS consortium, should help reduce or eliminate this risk. Even IKS partners using the software in their products will help reduce the “common boss” problem, as both the IKS and the partner company will have a need for Stanbol software. === Relationships with Other Apache Products === The IKS software is written as a set of OSGi components and runs on Apache Felix, using the launcher from Apache Sling. It also uses several key components from the Apache Clerezza incubating project, along with a number of other Apache libraries. Several Clerezza committers have been contributing in IKS workshops, without being part of the IKS consortium. Clerezza in turn uses Jena, which is also joining the Apache Incubator. Lucene/Solr will be used for indexing and search. We also expect to use software from or collaborate with Mahout, Tikka, Jackrabbit, UIMA and Chemistry. === An Excessive Fascination with the Apache Brand === The brand is not what makes the difference for the IKS team, the motivation is the opportunity to build and grow a community. == Documentation == Existing components are documented at http://wiki.iks-project.eu/ and http://code.google.com/p/iks-project/w/list but that information is still incomplete due to the alpha status of most of that software. == Initial Source == http://code.google.com/p/iks-project/ == External Dependencies == Appendix A contains the list of Maven groupIds of dependencies of the various Stanbol modules. Most of those are compatible with ASF requirements (http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html) but an extensive check is needed, to remove/change any non-compatible ones. == Required Resources == === Mailing Lists === * stanbol-private (moderated subscriptions) * stanbol-dev * stanbol-commits === Subversion Directory === * [[http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/stanbol]] === Issue Tracking === * JIRA (STANBOL) === Other Resources === We will probably request a wiki once the podling is setup, and access to a Hudson continuous build server. == Initial Committers and affiliations == The following people are members of the IKS consortium, see http://iks-project.eu/team/team for a description of their organizations: * Aldo Gangemi (aldo DOT gangemi AT cnr DOT it) - CNR * Andreas Filler (andreas DOT filler AT hs-furtwangen DOT de) - Hochschule Furtwangen * Andreas Gruber (andreas DOT gruber AT salzburgresearch DOT at) - Salzburg Research * Benjamin Nagel (bnagel AT hotmail DOT de) - University of Paderborn * Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz AT apache DOT org) - Adobe * Enrico Daga (enrico DOT daga AT cnr DOT it) - CNR * Fabian Christ (christ DOT fabian AT googlemail DOT com) - University of Paderborn (s-lab) * Henri Bergius (henri DOT bergius AT iki DOT fi) - Nemein - original co-author of Midgard * Jean-Michel Pittet (jmp AT adobe DOT com) - Adobe * Joerg Steffen (steffen AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI * Massimo Romanelli (romanell AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI - W3C MMI Working Group, USDL Incubator Group * Olivier Grisel (ogrisel AT nuxeo DOT com) - Nuxeo - committer on Nuxeo, contributor to Mahout, http://github.com/ogrisel and http://bitbucket.org/ogrisel * Ozgur Kilic (ozgur AT srdc DOT com DOT tr) - SRDC * Rupert Westenthaler (rupert DOT westenthaler AT gmail DOT com) - Salzburg Research * Sebastian Germesin (sebastian DOT germesin AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI * Stefane Fermigier (sf AT fermigier DOT com) - Nuxeo SA * Szabolcs Grunwald (szaby DOT gruenwald AT salzburgresearch DOT at) - Salzburg Research * Tilman Becker (becker AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI * Valentina Presutti (valentina DOT presutti AT cnr DOT it) - CNR * Walter Kasper (kasper AT dfki DOT de) - DFKI - OpenLogos project lead, http://openlogos-mt.sourceforge.net/ * Wernher Behrendt (wernher DOT behrendt AT gmail DOT com) - Salzburg Research * Wolfgang Maass (wolfgang DOT maass AT unisg DOT de) - University of St. Gallen The following initial committers are not members of the IKS consortium: * Andreas Kuckartz (a DOT kuckartz AT ping DOT de) * Ard Schrijvers (ard AT apache DOT org) * Tommaso Teofili (tommaso AT apache DOT org) == Sponsors == === Champion === * Bertrand Delacretaz (bdelacretaz AT apache DOT org) === Nominated Mentors === * Ted Dunning (tdunning AT apache DOT org) * Ross Gardler (rgardler AT apache DOT org) * Upayavira (upayavira AT apache DOT org) * Isabel Drost (isabel AT apache DOT org) === Sponsoring Entity === Apache Incubator. == Appendix A: list of dependencies == Here's the list of Maven groupIds of the current Stanbol dependencies, omitting org.apache.* and commons-* groupIds but including transitive dependencies. {{{ asm com.aetrion.flickr com.beetstra.jutf7 com.drewnoakes com.googlecode.json-simple com.hp.hpl.jena com.ibm.icu com.sun.jersey com.sun.xml.bind dom4j edu.smu.tspell eu.iksproject hermit info.aduna.commons it.unimi.dsi.fastutil.chars javax.activation javax.mail javax.servlet javax.ws.rs javax.xml javax.xml.bind javax.xml.stream jetty jtidy junit local.jrdf log4j mysql net.fortuna.ical4j net.fortuna.mstor net.sf.jacob-project net.sf.kxml net.sourceforge net.sourceforge.juniversalchardet org.antlr org.bibsonomy org.bouncycastle org.clojars.thnetos org.codehaus.castor org.codehaus.jackson org.codehaus.jettison org.codehaus.woodstox org.freemarker org.hsqldb org.htmlparser org.jaudiotagger org.jdom org.json org.mockito org.mortbay.jetty org.nsdl.mptstore org.openrdf.sesame org.ops4j.base org.ops4j.pax.exam org.ops4j.pax.runner org.osgi org.samba.jcifs org.scala-lang org.semanticdesktop.aperture org.semanticdesktop.nepomuk org.semanticweb.owlapi org.semweb4j org.slf4j org.textmining org.wymiwyg owl-link owlapi ronaldhttpclient stax trove xerces xmlpull }}} --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
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