- From: Jorge Pérez <jperez@ing.puc.cl>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:01:05 -0400 (CLT)
- To: public-rdf-dawg-comments@w3.org
- Cc: Jorge Pérez <jperez@ing.puc.cl>, "Claudio Gutierrez" <cgutierr@dcc.uchile.cl>, "Marcelo Arenas" <marenas@ing.puc.cl>
Dear all, We have been carefully following the editor's draft of SPARQL at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/rq25.html This message is to call the attention of the editors regarding the citation of prior work in the draft. Peter Patel-Schneider already raised a similar concern about the criteria or policy of citation of previous work in the area: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006JanMar/0516.html This message is to express our concern about our work on the compositional approach not being cited in the draft. As you all probably know, in June 2006 we submitted to the W3C the document "Semantics and Complexity of SPARQL" (which was published in ISWC 2006): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2006Jun/0008.html and then in October we submitted a revised version given a formal semantics to a larger part of SPARQL (published as a technical report at the University of Chile): http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006OctDec/0102.html http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg-comments/2006Nov/0007.html This work was very influential on the definition of the formal semantics for SPARQL, as one can see in Andy Seaborne's draft about the SPARQL algebra (where both articles are cited): http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rq23/rq24-algebra We are pointing out this not only for crediting purposes but also for technical reasons: Several technical database arguments behind some decisions made on the current design of the language were taken from those papers, and are documented in those papers. Therefore, in order to simplify the work of future developers of the standard, a reference should be made to this work. We hope that our kind request will be taken into consideration. Best regards, Jorge Pérez Marcelo Arenas Claudio Gutierrez
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