Acknowledgments.txt

Acknowledgements
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Dependencies
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Uses code (3rd Party Libraries) from the following sources:
- JSON.Net by James Newton-King -> http://json.codeplex.com
- HtmlAgilityPack by Simon Mourier -> http://htmlagilitypack.codeplex.com
- OpenLink.Data.Virtuoso -> http://virtuoso.openlinksw.com/dataspace/dav/wiki/Main/VirtAdoNet35Provider
- Portable.Runtime -> http://pclcontrib.codeplex.com
- Lucene.Net -> http://lucenenet.apache.org/
- FileAssociation by Brendan Grant -> http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dotnet/System_File_Association.aspx
- ICSharpCode.AvalonEdit by Daniel Grunwald -> http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/AvalonEdit.ashx
- VDS.Common by Rob Vesse -> http://bitbucket.org/rvesse/vds-common

Each of our releases artifacts requires some subset of our dependencies so your download will only include 
those that are necessary.

Developers
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dotNetRDF is developed by the following people:

- Rob Vesse
- Ron Michael Zettlemoyer
- Kal Ahmed
- Graham Moore
- Tomasz Plusekiewicz
- Samu Lang

Contributors
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Like any open source project dotNetRDF runs as a meritocracy, those who contribute over time will be 
invited to join the project as developers.

Thanks to the following people who have helped in the development process or whose suggestions have led to 
improvements in the code:

- Eamon Nerbonne for the BlockingStreamReader fix (http://eamon.nerbonne.org/) 
- Hugh Williams and Jacqui Hand of OpenLink Software (http://www.openlinksw.com) for help with their ADO.Net
  provider
- Toby Inkster (http://tobyinkster.co.uk/) for providing me with some TriX extensibility stylesheets that I 
  could use to test my TriX parser
- Marek Safar from the Mono project for fixing the bug in gmcs I identified which meant I couldn't compile
  a Mono build of dotNetRDF
- Andy Seaborne, Steve Harris and Mike Grove for excellent answers to various SPARQL and ARQ function library related questions 
  which have contributed to resolving various issues in the Leviathan engine and adding the ARQ function library support
- Peter Kahle for his efforts in producing a Windows Phone 7 version of the library
- Paul Hermans for various suggestions related to the improvement of the Toolkit
- The SPARQL Working Group for useful feedback and responses to my comments
- Graham Moore and Khalil Ahmed of NetworkedPlanet for excellent input on needed changes in the API to better support 3rd 
  party developers plugging their stuff into the API
- Laurent Lefort for feedback and suggestions regarding rdfEditor
- Kendall Clark, Mike Grove and the entire Stardog team for giving me early access to Stardog and continuining to
  provide top notch support and complimentary developer licenses to allow us to ensure our Stardog support remains
  up to date
- Ben Lavender for help getting Dydra support up and running
- Sid John and Steve S for help with debugging and testing Windows Phone 7/Silverlight related issues
- Koos Strydoom for extensive contributions around the SQL based stores and ASP.Net integration
- Ron Michael Zettlemoyer for various bug reports, patches and debugging help with Stardog support
- The following people who have contributed bug reports, patches, ideas etc on the mailing lists:
 - Tana Isaac
 - Alexander Sidorov
 - Michael Friis
 - Bob DuCharme
 - Alexander Zapirov
 - Sergey Novikov
 - Jeen Broekstra
 - Robert P DeCarlo
 - Clive Emberey
 - Anton Andreev
 - Steve Fraleigh
 - Felipe Santos
 - Bob Morris
 - Daniel Bittencourt
 - Rodrigo de Castro Reis
 - Rafael Dias Araujo
 - Jim Rhyne
 - Guillherme Alcantra Dias
 - Csaba Gonczi
 - Rahul Patil
 - Dan Smith
 - Nigel Jefferson
 - Volker Helms
 - Francis Wolfe
 - Antonio Nunziante
 - Rahul Sharma
 - Anthony Piretti
 - Tomasz Pluskiewicz
 - Rob Styles
 - Alexandre Bouffard
 - Uldis Bojars
 - Antonio Nunziante
 - Constantinos Orphinades
 - Daeron Meyer
 - Andrew Matthews
 - Nicolas Gauthier
 - Dimitri Kourkoulis
 - George Abraham
 - Dennis Ludl
 - Maximillien Bronnimann
 - Tony Lootens
 - Austin Barton
 - Eugen F
 - Dimitrii Rassokhin
 - Сергей Попов
 - Sergei Popov
 - Mark D Wood