Contributions to Standards. Except as explicitly provided in Annex 1 (Description of the action) of the GA, or as otherwise stated in an Attachment to this PCA, no Party shall have any obligation pursuant to this PCA to make any contribution for incorporation of its own Result, in any European or other standard. No Party shall have the right to contribute to a standard or allow the contribution to a standard of any Results, Background or Sensitive Information of another Party, even where such Results, Background or Sensitive Information is amalgamated with such first Party’s Result, Background, or Sensitive Information or other information, document or material. Any such contribution without such other Party’s written agreement justifies, in addition to any other available remedies, objection to the contribution by the Party concerned. Subject to a decision by the General Assembly that the Consortium may contribute to a European or other standard, a copy of any proposed contribution of Results to a meeting of a standard setting body, for the purpose of incorporation in a standard, shall be distributed in detail and in writing to the Parties, by the Party/ies proposing to submit the contribution, no later than 60 days prior to the date of the meeting (“Review Period”). Any Party may submit a written objection to such contribution to the Party/ies proposing the standard’s contribution and to the Executive Board, within a period of forty-five (45) days, (hereinafter referred to as the “Objection Period”) after receipt of a copy of the proposed contribution on either or both of the following grounds:
(i) that the objecting Party considers that the protection of the objecting Party’s Result would be adversely affected by the proposed contribution;
(ii) that the proposed contribution includes the Results, Background, or Sensitive Information of the objecting Party. The proposed contribution shall not be made until the expiry of the Objection Period. Any objection accompanied by evidence indicating, prime facie, that the objection is justifiable, is hereinafter referred to as a “Justifiable Objection”. In the absence of any Justifiable Objection on either or both of the above grounds within the above-mentioned period, it is deemed that the Parties agree to the proposed contribution. Following the end of the above-mentioned period, the Executive Board shall inform the Parties whether or not any objection has been received and whether such objection(s) is/are Justifiable Objections. In the ev...
Contributions to Standards. The XXX by enhancing the links between research, education and policy and by linking these activities across Europe will further contribute to robust standards in several areas: • Development of a European food data standard (e.g. CEN standard): This will be produced covering the mandatory and recommended documentation for nutrients and bioactive compounds in the database, the mode of expression for numeric values, and basic principles for the collection and management of data. Compatibility with international guidelines will be maintained through liaison and collaboration with the FAO/UNU INFOODS secretariat based in Rome. The inclusion of a food data CEN standard will require close co-operation and the establishment of an expert working group of both users and national compilers (largely drawn from this XxX). • EU standards in training and for young researchers and post-graduates in food composition and public health nutrition: Harmonisation training will be developed (see WP 3.1) through several initiatives including the Food Composition Database Course in Wageningen and the European Nutrition Leadership Programme (ENLP) to all regions of Europe. • Information for consumers: With increasing emphasis on healthy eating, clear and up-to-date information on nutritional composition of foods for the public is essential. Links between BEUC (The European Consumers Organisation) and the XXX will ensure that the Public’s perceived needs for information are addressed, and the results of any information will be made available to the Public at the earliest opportunity (See WP 2.1), and Science in Society (WP 3.2).
Contributions to Standards. Using and contributing to the MPEG 7 Media standard Revealing the interactive potential of MPEG 4 Exploring the MPEG 21 exchange platform Connecting personal publication with the World Wide Web
Contributions to Standards. The project will not make any direct contribution to the development of standards but it will certainly help with the dissemination and adoption of relevant, emerging standards such as XML, RDF, OWL and SOAP It will also promote the standardisation of services to be delivered on high profile EU based infrastructures such as TETRA, UMTS and Galileo.
Contributions to Standards. As the use of e-VLBI becomes more and more prevalent, so the importance of a standard framework for the transport of VLBI data across wide area networks and between various data acquisition and data processing systems increases. To address this problem a VLBI Standard Interface – Electronic (VSI-E) standard has been defined – currently in draft form. This is going through the standard process of review within the VLBI community and is expected to be adopted by the international VLBI community within the next 12 months. The main objectives of VSI-E are (i) interoperability, (ii) Internet friendliness, (iii) ease of implementation and (iv) transport flexibility – permitting users to choose the transport mechanism and protocols that best suit their networking environment. EXPReS is expected to adopt the VSI-E standard and Work Package 5 (SA1) includes a task to absorb the new standard and develop the new hardware and software interfaces that will be required in order to take full advantage of VSI-E.
Contributions to Standards. Being a Project mainly concerned with dissemination and outreach activities, CYCLOPS will not directly contribute to develop any standards in grid computing. However, from one side CYCLOPS, trough the INFN, will closely follow the activity of the Global Grid Forum and other standardization activities, such as those of OMII Europe, and, from another side, CYCLOPS will early adopt, test and validate, the middleware re-engineered by XXXX and EGEE-2 in compliance with the current open standards. In this way, CYCLOPS will actively participate in requirements capture and feedback on the middleware, standards and protocols, but also Grid management tools. Via this feedback through EGEE and EGEE-2, CYCLOPS will indirectly contribute to international standards. Being IMAA an active member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), Cyclops may profitably contribute to several areas of OGC standardization activity. OGC is a non-profit, international consortium of more than 270 companies, government agencies and universities, that is leading the development of standards for geospatial and location based services. Through a member-driven consensus programs, OGC works with government, private industry, and academia to create open and publicly available interface specifications so as to promote interoperability of geographic information and "geo-enable" the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream IT. In particular, some of the anticipated Cyclops results may be proposed as OGC Discussion Paper to germane OGC Working Groups, such as the following: - Risk and Crisis Management Working Group, set to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of users in each phase of the risk and crisis management life cycle and across the risk and crisis management community through changes and extensions to OGC specifications; - Sensor Web Enablement Working Group, focused on developing standards to enable the discovery and exchange of sensor observations, as well as the tasking of sensor systems; - Earth Observation Working Group, particularly involved in the G8-sponsored initiative for the implementation, in the next 10 years, of a Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), which will provide the institutional mechanisms for ensuring the necessary level of coordination, strengthening and supplementation of existing global Earth observation systems, and for reinforcing and supporting them in carrying out their mandates. Moreover, Cyclops results may be contributed ...
Contributions to Standards. Except as explicitly provided in Annex I of the GA, or as otherwise stated in Annex 8 to this CA, no Party shall have any obligation pursuant to this CA to make any contribution for incorporation of its own Foreground in any European or other standard.
Contributions to Standards. The Parties shall agree rules and working procedures for any standardization related activities (including but not limited to preparation and review of proposed contributions to any standard’s organization) within the Project and any such activities need to be implemented in a manner that does not violate any applicable antitrust laws and regulations. For the avoidance of doubt, no Party shall have any obligation to make any contribution for incorporation of its own Results, in any European or other standard. In addition, no Party shall have the right to contribute to a standard or allow the contribution to a standard of any data which constitutes Results, Background or Confidential Information of another Party, even where such data is amalgamated with such first Party’s Results, Background, or Confidential Information or other information, document or material, without such other Party’s prior written approval.
Contributions to Standards. We expect that SELFMAN will influence standards in two areas:
1. First, XXXXXXX will investigate to what degree self managing properties can be added to large-scale distributed systems built with J2EE. One approach we will use is to implement self-managing J2EE libraries with the same API as standard Java libraries. For example, a DHT library can be built with the Java Map interface. This will maximize the influence of our work on the Java community. The Java community can also benefit, through SELFMAN’s contributions to the ObjectWeb consortium, from the extended Fractal model and ADL, and from the Java-based implementation of the SELFMAN service architecture. For instance, the results of the project on self-configuring components can influence standardization on Java modules and J2EE deployment.
2. Second, SELFMAN will influence Grid research through CoreGrid (partners UCL, KTH, INRIA, and ZIB) and through the special role of ZIB in the Grid community, as explained in Section 5. We expect that the addition of self management to the Grid standard will be strongly influenced by the results of XXXXXXX.
Contributions to Standards. With a view to bringing new functionalities with reduced cost, increased performance and more flexibility and easiness, the K-Space XxX will aim at contributing to existing and emerging standards. It is now widely recognised that the standardization of a new technology is beneficial to the industry and to the end-user. This is the reason why K-Space will invest significant efforts into standards activities and will contribute wherever and whenever possible. This project is tackling several topics which are currently under consideration by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29 WG 11 (MPEG), WG1 (JPEG) as well as XML, XML Namespaces, RDF, XSL, XSLT (W3C) standard bodies. An objective of K-Space is therefore to actively participate and contribute to these standardisation activities with the expectation of having a significant impact on the development of these standards. As an example, adoption of the ontology layer features OWL (Ontology Web Language) which is a family of richer ontology languages (OWL Lite, OWL DL, OWL Full) is targeted in K-Space activities. K-Space also strengthens and supports partner’s participation in the development of future XML-based standards. The aim of this Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group is to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic Web applications. Within SWPBD WG there is an effort for the creation of a Task Force (TF) aiming at bridging the gap between ISO standards (RDF, OWL) and W3C standards (MPEG7, MPEG21). K-Space will contribute in the investigation of potential approaches for multimedia annotation strategies that combine and/or integrate the SemWeb languages with MPEG-7 tools in an interoperable way. The efforts for creating this WG are coordinated by CWI and CERTH. CWI is a contributor to the W3C SMIL 1.0, SMIL 2.0, and XHTML recommendations and as well as to ISO’s MPEG7 DDL Working Group. CWI is currently participating in the W3C Semantic Web Best Practices group which aim is to provide hands-on support for developers of Semantic Web applications. This involvement will greatly contribute to WP5 that builds a reference architecture that will be used throughout the K-Space project. In the eContent project LIRICS, DFKI contributes to standardisation activities within the ISO TC37/SC4 committee dedicated to language resource management. The link between standards for language resources and MPEG-7/MPEG-21 will be one of our main concerns. DFKI is also contributing to the ISO TC37/SC4 Task Domain ...
