RE: Suggested charter changes

On 7 Aug 2014 at 01:00, Holger Knublauch wrote:
> On 8/7/14, 6:16 AM, David Booth wrote:
>> 3. In Section 4 (Deliverables), change "OPTIONAL - Compact,
>> human-readable syntax" to "Compact, human-readable syntax", i.e., make
>> it required.
>> 
>> REASON: I think a compact, readable syntax is important.  Writing
>> validation rules in RDF would be simpler than writing them in SPARQL,
>> but still much more tedious than having a concise, compact syntax for
>> expressing them.
>
> Several people here on this list have stated that they disagree with
> making this deliverable mandatory, because it is quite possible that the
> RDF-based syntaxes are sufficient. It is also quite possible that the
> group finds the opposite, and we need a shorter syntax. But we don't
> know at this stage, so the deliverable should remain OPTIONAL and the
> decision be left to the WG.

+1


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Markus Lanthaler
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Received on Thursday, 7 August 2014 07:41:13 UTC