Re: SHACL name

Hi!

The people I talked to found it quite fitting (+ funny considering the 
various logo possibilities ;)).
But ofc, they were mostly non-native English speakers.

simon

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DDipl.-Ing. Simon Steyskal
Institute for Information Business, WU Vienna

www: http://www.steyskal.info/  twitter: @simonsteys

Am 2015-05-29 03:41, schrieb Holger Knublauch:
> Sorry to raise a dead topic, but I am increasingly getting negative
> feedback on the name SHACL from people outside of the WG. I know most
> of us were all excited about the name and were happy to have this
> difficult topic off the radar, but I am afraid it may come back. The
> feedback that I am hearing is that people don't take a technology
> serious that sounds like a sex toy, or that it sounds too dark. It's
> probably also a bit negative to talk only about constraining things,
> when it's really also a schema language to create things. I personally
> would now prefer something like "Data Shapes Language" (DASH), also
> because we then have prefix and technology abbreviation aligned
> (dash:property etc).
> 
> Did others hear similar feedback? Would this topic be worth reopening
> or shall we await feedback on the FPWD? I am fully aware we have many
> other topics to worry about right now, so please don't shoot the
> messenger.
> 
> Regards,
> Holger

Received on Friday, 29 May 2015 02:21:15 UTC