SPARQL Maintenance (EXISTS) Community Group created

The SPARQL Maintenance (EXISTS) Community Group has been launched:
  http://www.w3.org/community/sparql-exists/

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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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To join:
  http://www.w3.org/community/sparql-exists/join

If you do not have one already, you will need a W3C account to join:
  http://www.w3.org/accounts/request

This is a community initiative. W3C's hosting of this group does not
imply endorsement of the activities.

The group must now choose a chair:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-choose-a-chair

For more information about getting started in the new group, see:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group

and good practice for running a group:
 http://www.w3.org/community/about/good-practice-for-running-a-group/

We invite you to share news of this new group in social media
and other channels.

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

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team

Received on Friday, 1 July 2016 12:17:49 UTC