SPARQL Maintenance (EXISTS) Community Group Proposed

The SPARQL Maintenance (EXISTS) Community Group has been proposed:

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The "SPARQL Maintenance (EXISTS)" Community Group is a forum to discuss
and address problems with the "EXISTS" feature in SPARQL 1.1.


The  SPARQL 1.1 suite of specifications  and the  SPARQL 1.1 test suite
are frozen. A process exists to record errata and that will be one input
to any working group chartered to revise SPARQL.


In the meantime, SPARQL is being used in real-work systems in industry
and public-sector. The user community expects a high degree of
conformance across implementations.


The EXISTS feature has been found to be problematic. This feature is
used by the  RDF Data Shapes Working Group .


This community group will create CG Notes and accompanying test suites
to describe one or more improvements with an emphasis on maintaining
compatibility.


This group is not producing specifications.


Any tests produced by the will submitted to the  RDF Test Suite Curation
CG  for long-term stewardship.


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You are invited to support the creation of this group:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed#sparql-exists

Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and
people can join to begin work. Once launched, the group will no longer
be listed as "proposed"; it will appear in the list of current groups:
  http://www.w3.org/community/groups/

In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account. To request one:
  http://www.w3.org/accounts/request

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires
the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on
site-comments@w3.org.

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Friday, 1 July 2016 11:21:42 UTC