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+# SEDIMARK Marketplace Ontology
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+## About  
+The Marketplace Information Model is an RDFS/OWL-ontology covering the fundamental concepts of SEDIMARK needed for the registration of participants and the discovery and exchange of offerings and assets. This model establishes a common framework to ensure interoperability within a SEDIMARK-based Marketplace.
+This model is supported by existing proposals by similar initiatives and is built upon well-known ontologies such as Data Catalog vocabulary (DCAT), Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL), Friend Of A Friend (FOAF) or the Dublin Core Terms (DCT). In particular, the model has its foundations in the proposal shared by the International Data Spaces Protocol, to try to be compatible as much compatible as possible with such an initiative.
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+## Licence
+This is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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+## Acknowledgement
+This work is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe framework programme [grant no. 101070074]. 
+This project is also partly funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant no. 10043699].