Re: summarizing proposed changes to charter

* Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org> [2014-08-12 20:55-0400]
> Hi all, we can have a face-to-face at the W3C Technical Plenary in
> November if we can quickly endorse a good-enough charter.  As it
> stands now, it isn't clear that the group will be able to reach
> consensus within the Working Group, let alone get through the member
> review without objection.

Many thanks to everyone! I think this will get us to AC review in time
for a F2F at the Technical Plenary.


> Please review the proposals that I've culled from the list.  I
> encournage compromise on all our parts and we'll have to suppress the
> desire to wordsmith. (Given the 3-month evaluation period,
> wordsmithing won't change much anyways.)

For posterity's sake, below is an accounting of how these were
implemented in the charter:


> separate semantics:
> 
>   "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID: <53E2AFBD.9050102@gmail.com>
>     A syntax and semantics for shapes specifying how to construct shape expressions and how shape expressions are evaluated against RDF graphs.
>   "Dam, Jesse van" <jesse.vandam@wur.nl> - Message-ID: <63CF398D7F09744BA51193F17F5252AB1FD60B24@SCOMP0936.wurnet.nl>
>     defining the the (direct) semantics meaning of shapes and defining the associated validation process.
> 
>   opposition: Holger Knublauch
> 
>   proposed resolution: include, noting that if SPARQL is judged to be useful for the semantics, there's nothing preventing us from using it.

+        <li><p><b>Semantics</b>, possibly defined as SPARQL operations, specifying how shapes are evaluated against RDF graphs.</p></li>


> make graph normalization optional or use-case specific:
> 
>   "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID: <53E2AFBD.9050102@gmail.com>
>     3 OPTIONAL A specification of how shape verification interacts with inference.
>   Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com> - Message-Id: <D954B744-05CD-4E5C-8FC2-C08A9A99BA9F@syapse.com>
>     the WG will consider whether it is necessary, practical or desireable to normalize a graph...
>     A graph normalization method, suitable for  the use cases determined by the group....
>   David Booth <david@dbooth.org> - Message-ID: <53E28D07.9000804@dbooth.org>
>     OPTIONAL - A Recommendation for normalization/canonicalization of RDF graphs and RDF datasets that are serialized in N-Triples and N-Quads. opposition - don't do it at all:
>   "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID: <53E3A4CB.4040200@gmail.com>
>     the WG should not be working on this.
> 
>   proposed resolution: withdrawn, to go to new light-weight, focused WG, removing this text:
>   [[
>   The WG MAY produce a Recommendation for graph normalization.
>   ]]

-      <p>The WG <strong>MAY</strong> produce a Recommendation for <strong>graph normalization</strong>.</p>


> mandatory human-facing language:
> 
>   "Dam, Jesse van" <jesse.vandam@wur.nl> - Message-ID: <63CF398D7F09744BA51193F17F5252AB1FD60B24@SCOMP0936.wurnet.nl>
>     ShExC mandatory, but potentially as a Note.
>   David Booth <david@dbooth.org> - Message-ID: <53E28D07.9000804@dbooth.org>
>     In Section 4 (Deliverables), change "OPTIONAL - Compact, human-readable syntax" to "Compact, human-readable syntax", i.e., make it required.
>   Jeremy J Carroll <jjc@syapse.com> - Message-Id: <54AA894F-F4B4-4877-8806-EB85FB5A42E5@syapse.com>
> 
>   opposition - make it OPTIONAL
>   "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfpschneider@gmail.com> - Message-ID: <53E2AFBD.9050102@gmail.com>
>     OPTIONAL A compact, human-readable syntax for expressing shapes.
> 
>   proposed resolution: keep as OPTIONAL, not mentioning ShExC, but clarifying that it's different from the RDF syntax.

~        <li><p><strong>OPTIONAL</strong> - <b>Compact, human-readable, non-RDF syntax</b> for expressing constraints on RDF graph patterns (aka shapes), suitable for the use cases determined by the group.</p></li>
-   This syntax might be a variation of an existing standard, such as templates for SPARQL, or something new, such as ShExC.


> report formats:
>   Dimitris Kontokostas <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
>     provide flexible validation execution plans that range from:
>       Success / fail
>       Success / fail per constraint
>       Fails with error counts
>       Individual resources that fail per constraint
>       And enriched failed resources with annotations
> 
>   proposed resolution: no change, noting that no one seconded this proposal.

no change


> test suite/validator:
> 
>   Dimitris Kontokostas <kontokostas@informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
>     Validation results are very important for the progress of this WG and should be a standalone deliverable.
>   David Booth <david@dbooth.org> - Message-ID: <53E28D07.9000804@dbooth.org>
>     Test Suite, to help ensure interoperability and correct implementation. The group will chose the location of this deliverable, such as a git repository.
> 
>   proposed resolution: leave from charter as WGs usually choose to do this anyways and it has no impact on IP commitments.

no change


I also added ", with some extensibility mechanism for complex use cases." to the first deliverable. I presume this is non-controversial.


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