Re: SHACL semantics - any alternatives to SPARQL?

* Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> [2015-03-06 08:38-0800]
> 
> 
> On 03/06/2015 07:23 AM, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> > 
> > On Mar 6, 2015 7:17 AM, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider"
> > <pfpschneider@gmail.com <mailto:pfpschneider@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >> 
> > It seems that the working group is supposed to be pushing towards 
> > publication of a SHACL specification document in the near future.   Does 
> > anyone have any alternatives to a SPARQL-based semantics for SHACL that
> > they would like to put forward?
> > 
> > Yes, I am aware that there are three potential semantics from the Shape 
> > Expressions community that might be alternatives, but is anyone going to 
> > champion either the current version of one of these semantics or have a 
> > modified version available in time for consideration by the working
> > group?
> > 
> >> I thought the plan was to publish the primer and to work some more on
> >> the semantics before publication.
> 
> I thought so too a while ago, and then there was all this debate over the
> primer and then the primer appears to have been shelved and this new
> document from Holger appeared and there was this apparent push to turn it
> into a FPWD.
> 
> Holger's document is listed on the web page, and appears as an editors draft
> when viewed.  At F2F2 there was a chair proposal to aim at publishing a
> SHACL spec, which was not approved, largely because there were several
> comments that the document needed considerable work, but work on the
> document has been going forward very quickly so this reason for delay is
> mostly overcome.  At the teleconference on 26 February there was a chair
> comment that there is a rush in getting a FPWD of the spec out and some
> discussion of what needs to be done to the document before FPWD.
> 
> Meanwhile the primer appears to have languished.

I'm not sure I agree. I recall having a fairly short list of TODOs in
the critical path of FPWD after the F2F:
  s/instance/RDF representation of an instance/ per discussion 2015-02-17T21:06:23Z
  change the name to SHACL per WG decision
    change the namespace to sh:
  move the abstract syntax into another doc
implemented in
https://github.com/w3c/data-shapes/commits/gh-pages/data-shapes-primer/no-class-templates.html  

I then moved the old LDOM primer to ldom-primer.html and moved
no-class-templates to index.html and changed it to and ED to reflect
the WG decision.


> So it seems to me that there is indeed a rush to get a spec document to FPWD
> even as there are disapprovals of major portions of the spec in the
> document.  I'm one of the members of the working group that have been
> voicing and writing disapprovals, but I'm certainly not the only one.
> However, I'm the only one who has presented a worked-out counterproposal
> 
> So if you believe, like I do, that the current spec document is not going in
> the right general direction you have the following choices:
> 1/ Throw in with me.
> 2/ Put forward your own proposal, either for a different spec or for major
> changes to the current spec document.
> 3/ Try to slow the rush to FPWD for the spec until something better comes along.
> 
> If you are going for 3/ then you should believe that something better will
> come along very shortly.  If you are going for 2/ you should realize that at
> this point you need something that addresses the vast majority of the
> approved and nearly-approved requirements.
> 
> peter
> 

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