Update on group activities, next meeting

Dear all,

Now that for most of us the summer is over and a new academic year is 
about to start (or just started), I would like to update you on the 
activities of our community group.

I have seen that some new people joint the group, so first of all: 
Welcome to everyone who is new in this group!

General organization:

  * Most discussions we had and have in this group are captured on our
    github <https://github.com/w3c/N3/issues/>. All of you are welcome
    to add your opinions here or to open new issues you would like to
    discuss.
  * Additionally to the github discussions we also have *weekly
    meetings* which take place every *Monday at 6 pm CEST
    <http://www.timebie.com/std/centraleuropean.php?q=18>*. To join a
    meeting, you can use this skype link:
    https://join.skype.com/aRBuOasYurPd. We capture the notes of these
    meetings in a google doc
    <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3HAUhjaVnnJ6yVbFAvIBRJQjUY9aFlQ2_bGxkD0mnE/edit?usp=sharing>.

Updates on recent topics:

  * *built-ins*: we are still discussing which built-ins should be part
    of N3 and which not, you can add your opinion to our google doc
    <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ByEWSADIvebHRrBda0HhdKhHhp444mYM7BAapXVIJoM/edit?usp=sharing>for
    that.
  * *N3 and named graphs*: Wiliam Van Woensel and I recently wrote a
    short paper about how we see the connection between named graphs and
    N3. This was presented at RuleML+RR, I attached this paper to this
    e-mail.
  * *Definition of N3's Semantics*: We plan to define N3's semantics in
    here <https://github.com/w3c/N3/tree/master/spec> (thank you Dominik
    for setting it up). We plan to start from RDF semantics
    <https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-mt/> and the recent journal paper
    <https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=2ahUKEwjr9r7ep_HkAhVCVRUIHczxB04QFjAHegQIAxAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Flirias.kuleuven.be%2Fretrieve%2F538076%2F&usg=AOvVaw07BlthlMZO-Hr98q5BAe0P>
    on that topic.
  * *Outreach*: We presented N3 and our community at RuleML+RR 2019
    <https://rulemlrr19.inf.unibz.it/> and had some interesting
    discussions. We would like to target other conferences (ISWC,
    ESWC,?). Your suggestions are welcome.

As a last point, I would like to say that we plan to take one more week 
of summer break (even though the summer is technically over :( ). So, 
our *next meeting* will take place at*Monday, October 7th at 6pm CEST*. 
In the mean time I would be interested in your opinions about the paper 
I attached (but also all other topics are welcome!).

Kind regards,
Doerthe  (on behalf of the chairs)


-- 
Dörthe Arndt
Researcher Semantic Web
imec - Ghent University - IDLab | Faculty of Engineering and Architecture | Department of Electronics and Information Systems
Technologiepark-Zwijnaarde 122, 9052 Ghent, Belgium
t: +32 9 331 49 59 | e: doerthe.arndt@ugent.be