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<h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
<p>
The editors would like to specially thank the following individuals for making significant
contributions to the authoring and editing of this specification:
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<ul class="ack">
<li>Timothy Cole (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)</li>
<li>Gregory Todd Williams (J. Paul Getty Trust)</li>
<li>Ivan Herman (W3C Staff)</li>
<li>Jeff Mixter (OCLC (Online Computer Library Center, Inc.))</li>
<li>David Lehn (Digital Bazaar)</li>
<li>David Newbury (J. Paul Getty Trust)</li>
<li>Robert Sanderson (J. Paul Getty Trust, chair)</li>
<li>Harold Solbrig (Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research)</li>
<li>Simon Steyskal (WU (Wirschaftsuniversität Wien) - Vienna University of Economics and Business)</li>
<li>A Soroka (Apache Software Foundation)</li>
<li>Ruben Taelman (Imec vzw)</li>
<li>Benjamin Young (Wiley, chair)</li>
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<p>Additionally, the following people were members of the Working Group at the time of publication:</p>
<ul class="ack">
<li>Steve Blackmon (Apache Software Foundation)</li>
<li>Dan Brickley (Google, Inc.)</li>
<li>Newton Calegari (NIC.br - Brazilian Network Information Center)</li>
<li>Victor Charpenay (Siemens AG)</li>
<li>Sebastian Käbisch (Siemens AG)</li>
<li>Axel Polleres (WU (Wirschaftsuniversität Wien) - Vienna University of Economics and Business)</li>
<li>Leonard Rosenthol (Adobe)</li>
<li>Jean-Yves ROSSI (CANTON CONSULTING)</li>
<li>Antoine Roulin (CANTON CONSULTING)</li>
<li>Manu Sporny (Digital Bazaar)</li>
<li>Clément Warnier de Wailly (CANTON CONSULTING)</li>
</ul>
<p>
A large amount of thanks goes out to the <a href='https://www.w3.org/community/json-ld/'>JSON-LD Community Group</a> participants who worked through many of the technical issues on the mailing list and the weekly telecons: Chris Webber, David Wood, Drummond Reed, Eleanor Joslin, Fabien Gandon, Herm Fisher, Jamie Pitts, Kim Hamilton Duffy, Niklas Lindström, Paolo Ciccarese, Paul Frazze, Paul Warren, Reto Gmür, Rob Trainer, Ted Thibodeau Jr., and Victor Charpenay.
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