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RDF DAWG Weekly

24 Oct 2006

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Attendees

Present
kendallclark, LeeF, PatH, AndyS, SimonR, EliasT, EricP, jeen
Regrets
SteveH, FredZ
Chair
kendallclark
Scribe
LeeF

Contents


convene, agenda comments, roll call, minutes, next meeting, recruit scribe

<kendallclark> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006OctDec/0090.html

Agenda is swell. Let's do it.

<AndyS> Can't anyone can email the list (as Henry demo'ed!)

No minutes public yet from last week, we'll approve them next week

Daylight time changes before next meeting -- for now we'll keep the meeting at 14:30Z

AndyS: not available the week of the 7th (ISWC) but available the 14th

LeeF: availble the 7th but not the 14th (SWEO IG F2F)

PatH: available

EliasT: available both

AndyS: EricP probably not available on the 14th

kendallclark: available both

we'll probably meet both dates even with small crews

Next meeting: October 31, 14:30Z, AndyS to scribe

action items

<scribe> ACTION: FredZ to repost pointers to previous arguments for curlies on OPTIZONAL LHS [DONE] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]

<scribe> ACTION: LeeF and EliasT to summarize open SPARQL protocol issues and propose resolutions in email to WG [DONE] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]

<scribe> ACTION: PatH to draft replacement vanilla entailment section for WG consideration [CONTINUES] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]

<scribe> ACTION: KendallC to close formsOfDistinct issue [CONTINUES] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]

<scribe> ACTION: PatH to review the proposed tests in http:// lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006JulSep/0169 and say yay or nay [CONTINUES] [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]

expressions in select

<ericP> Regards: +EricP

LeeF: consensus seems to be that people feel the need for expressions in the select list, but closing/postponing this issue won't preclude future work by a future group

PROPOSED: to close the puncutationSyntax issue

<kendallclark> a basic scribe need! :)

RESOLVED, FredZ (Oracle) abstaining

scope of filter

kendallclark: last week, the discussion about filter scope shifted quickly from FILTERs to how to determine the first argument to OPTIONAL

<kendallclark> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006JulSep/0243

<kendallclark> Andy's reply:

<kendallclark> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006OctDec/0099.html

-> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006JulSep/0243 contains some test cases about the scope and order of FILTER

AndyS: dawg-filter-scope-003 is more about the execution order than about the scope of filters per se
... Lee's design would be consistent with the proposed algebra change

ericP: can't pass the tests without writing new code because I have variables in scope for the inner group

<kendallclark> cute :)

<ericP> LeeF, i think kendallclark asked you to scribe something about 001 and 004, but i don't know what

<kendallclark> PROPOSAL: to approve dawg-filter-scope-001, 002, dawg-filter-order-001

<AndyS> That better? I'm muted here now.

PROPOSAL: to approve dawg-filter-scope-001, 002, dawg-filter-order-001

<EliasT> yay

RESOLVED

<jeen> yay

<ericP> yay!

<scribe> ACTION: LeeF to throw said 3 approved tests into the approved bucket [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]

<kendallclark> ACTION: KendallC to the wee, lost filter tests should be put to the question (re: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006OctDec/0099.html) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]

<ericP> 4.7: [[@@Filters apply to the whole of the group they are in. Canonically, all matchingis done, then filters are applied. Implementations wil optimize this.]]

operational definition of SPARQL algebra

<kendallclark> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006OctDec/0080.html

<LeeF> ericP, needs to specifically say the *innermost* group

AndyS: bottom-up algebra approach in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006OctDec/0080.html -- document changes would be rewriting definitions and formally defining join and leftjoin for SPARQL (slightly different from relational algebra)

<ericP> AndyS, do you mind if i patch the @@ to include "innermost"?

LeeF: i think this makes it clearer, addresses some concerns of the community, easier to reason over

SimonR: I think this is a hue improvement

AndyS: Wanted to give anyone who has objections a chance to raise them; it is a significant change, and so I want people to be able to voice concerns before we go too far down this road. In particular, I'd like to hear from Fred

<AndyS> EricP : innermost isn't clear to me. Seems to be the most deeply nested not "same level".

kendallclark: there's a new document from the Chileans trying to work out formal semantics for SPARQL. they claim to formalize the semantics w/o changing the semantics. Would it be worth having this group of people review the changes we are making here?

<ericP> The way we generally handle the ACTION on folks who aren't here is to ACTION some other poor shmuck to pester them

<LeeF> AndyS, "the smallest group which contains the FILTER" -- isn't that accurate ?

<ericP> LeeF, perhaps s/smallest/innermost/ ?

<LeeF> ericP, was trying to avoid innermost since Andy wasn't happy with it :)

<patH> Where are these new Chilean documents? Are they public?

<AndyS> By this point, it's going to probably better be expressed relative to the algebra and syntax words may be confusing.

ericP: how do we communicate in the test materials that a certain test requires certain extensibility in a SPARQL engine?

<SimonR> (Clattery keyboard!)

<kendallclark> path: i'm sending it to the list now

<patH> ta

<LeeF> AndyS, OK I'll be glad to be a word-reviewer rather than a word-smither of this particular wording :)

<AndyS> yes - it's only an @@ for me!

ericP: i proposed mf:requires such that FOO mf:requires xsd:someType means that the test requires support for the type

<kendallclark> (email w/ chilean semantics paper sent to list)

AndyS: harder to talk about tests in the implementation report without having URIs for them

<jeen> (back)

<jeen> zakim unmute me

<AndyS> Woks for me - I'll go and impl new algebra :-)

<SimonR> Maybe giving the tests an rdf:type instead, so that classifying something as in a partcular manifest and required by a particular extension could be done using subclassing.

PROPOSED to adjourn early

ADJOURNED

Summary of Action Items

[NEW] ACTION: KendallC to the wee, lost filter tests should be put to the question (re: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006OctDec/0099.html) [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]
[NEW] ACTION: LeeF to throw said 3 approved tests into the approved bucket [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]
 
[PENDING] ACTION: KendallC to close formsOfDistinct issue [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]
[PENDING] ACTION: PatH to draft replacement vanilla entailment section for WG consideration [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]
[PENDING] ACTION: PatH to review the proposed tests in http:// lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2006JulSep/0169 and say yay or nay [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]
 
[DONE] ACTION: FredZ to repost pointers to previous arguments for curlies on OPTIZONAL LHS [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]
[DONE] ACTION: LeeF and EliasT to summarize open SPARQL protocol issues and propose resolutions in email to WG [recorded in http://www.w3.org/2006/10/24-dawg-irc]
 
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