Re: Status of the R2RML document and going last call

Richard,

Thanks for that. I agree with the status analysis and hope that the WG  
also is fine with it.

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On 2 Aug 2011, at 18:26, Richard Cyganiak wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Since this came up in the call.
>
> We have 12 open issues against the R2RML spec.
>
> Personally I would consider four of them blockers for last call.  
> Three are part of one big cluster related to type conversions  
> between SQL and RDF:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/29
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/48
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/51
>
> This one is about the mapping tables:
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/61
>
> All the rest is either editorial, or polishing the language; if  
> running out of time, we can postpone them:
>
> Editorial issues
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/49 SQL terminology in  
> R2RML
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/57 “mapping document”  
> term
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/58 Introducing Turtle
>
> R2RML polishing and syntactic sugar
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/54 Simpler constant  
> term maps
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/55 Nested P-O maps
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/56 Default termType  
> for templates
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/59 triples maps w/  
> single P-O map
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/60 logical table  
> syntactic sugar
>
> Furthermore, there are another six issues that are pending review.
> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/rdb2rdf/track/issues/pendingreview
>
> In summary, I feel that with four weeks left, R2RML is well on track.
>
> Of course the most important thing is to get the blockers fixed. But  
> I assume that there will be some time left to look at a few non- 
> essential “postponable” issues. One thing that would be useful here  
> is some quick commentary on the editorial and polishing (and already  
> postponed) issues. Can you rank them by importance? Should we  
> consider any of the already postponed issues if there's time left  
> before LC?
>
> Best,
> Richard

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