SSTIM
A living scientific and technical reference: its present implementation includes a modular RDF vocabulary, shared identifiers, provenance-aware descriptions, validation profiles and citable releases.
Architecture and directory
The SSTIM ecosystem
SSTIM is an open, evolving reference for stimuli and sensory stimulation, connecting scientific knowledge, technology and AI through shared meanings, evidence-aware descriptions and persistent identifiers. Its current formal foundation is a modular ontology and vocabulary. The wider SSTIM ecosystem also includes reference tools, its independent Community Group and related applications and initiatives, whether or not they adopt SSTIM.
Our direction: a living reference that people and intelligent systems can examine, question and improve without losing published meaning or source provenance. Read the vision.
The ecosystem is intentionally broader than the SSTIM standard. Inclusion describes a relationship to the field; it does not imply ownership, affiliation, endorsement, or conformance.
Architecture at a glance
One open center, a wider field
SSTIM provides the formalized knowledge. The Workbench exercises it, the Community Group develops it, and separate applications and initiatives relate to it in different ways.
SSTIM-centered core Open, evolving knowledge reference Non-normative reference software Open community
SSTIM Workbench
The executable environment you are using now. Graph Navigator, Patch Studio, the SPARQL workbench, presets, and supporting engines exercise SSTIM without making Workbench behavior normative.
W3C Sensory Stimulation Vocabulary Community Group
The independent open forum in which SSTIM is developed. It is part of the SSTIM ecosystem; Community Group work is not a W3C Recommendation or W3C-endorsed technology.
Visit the Community GroupWider sensory-stimulation field
Separate applications and initiatives
Software, hardware, research, standards work, communities, and other initiatives belong in the SSTIM ecosystem according to their domain relevance—even when no SSTIM adoption or support relationship is currently recorded.
BioSynCare
A separate application with its own private code, catalog, and data. BioSynCare adopts and contributes to SSTIM, participates in the SSTIM ecosystem, and has an application-centered ecosystem that overlaps with it.
Overlapping ecosystems
SSTIM-centered and application-centered
Neither ecosystem has to own the other for both descriptions to be true.
SSTIM ecosystem
Includes SSTIM, SSTIM Workbench, the Community Group, SSTIM adopters and supporters, and the wider landscape of sensory-stimulation applications and initiatives.
BioSynCare adopts and contributes to SSTIM shared knowledge · tooling · community
BioSynCare ecosystem
Centers on the commercial application. SSTIM, SSTIM Workbench, and the Community Group appear in this ecosystem through their knowledge, tooling, and community relationships with BioSynCare; they do not become BioSynCare property or product components.
Directory model
Classify the relationship, not the brand
Each entry has an entity kind, zero or more SSTIM relationships, and a separate domain-review status. These facets prevent “listed” from being mistaken for “conformant.”
Entity kind
- Application or other software
- Hardware, mechanical, manual, or hybrid implementation
- Project, programme, or research initiative
- Standard, vocabulary, dataset, or infrastructure
- Community or organization
Relationship to SSTIM
- Adopts SSTIM
- Public evidence shows use of named SSTIM terms, identifiers, profiles, or formats.
- Interoperates with SSTIM
- A documented mapping, import/export path, or adapter targets a named SSTIM release or profile.
- Contributes to SSTIM
- Documented work contributes to the specification, vocabulary, documentation, interoperability work, or shared identifiers.
- Supports SSTIM
- Documented funding, hosting, advocacy, outreach, institutional, or research support.
- Referenced by SSTIM
- SSTIM cites, describes, or maps the entry without implying participation, support, or adoption.
- No SSTIM relationship recorded
- The entry belongs to the wider sensory-stimulation field, but this directory records no more specific SSTIM relationship.
Domain-review status
- Reviewed as sensory stimulation
- Public evidence was reviewed against SSTIM's operational domain definition. This is classification, not endorsement.
- Candidate — review pending
- Public information suggests relevance to sensory stimulation, but classification has not yet been completed.
- Related initiative
- Relevant standards, datasets, research infrastructure, communities, or other work that is not itself a stimulation-delivery implementation.
Separate applications and initiatives
A growing, non-exhaustive directory
Inclusion records relevance to sensory stimulation. It does not imply endorsement, affiliation, certification, effectiveness, safety, SSTIM conformance, or W3C approval.
Commercial sensory-stimulation application
BioSynCare
Adopts SSTIMContributes to SSTIM Reviewed as sensory stimulation
A separate closed-source application whose use of and contribution to SSTIM places it in the SSTIM ecosystem. Its private application code, catalog, and user data remain outside SSTIM Workbench.
Visit BioSynCarePropose or correct an entry
Supply public sources, the entity kind, the proposed domain status, and evidence for every SSTIM relationship claimed. Classification follows SSTIM's operational definition of sensory stimulation.
Browse the stakeholder directory Open a directory issue Read the domain definition