[Text-Direction] New Wiki page.

In today’s meeting I said I would take on starting a discussion of text direction in RDF. I created a wiki page [1] describing the problem space and some potential solutions which I invite interested people to contribute to. The advantage of this is that it is an easy space for people to collaborate. The disadvantage is that there’s no simple notification when changes are made. So, if working on this, please send updates to the RDF-star WG mailing list and indicate the topic using the subject prefix “[Text Direction]” or by responding to this email.

Note that issue #9 [2] in the RDF Concepts repo is also relevant to this discussion, although detail can get lost in separate comments. Ultimately, our solution should be documented there, but this wiki page, or one derived from it, may be useful past the time the issue is settled as a rationale for the direction we actually take.

As Ivan said in [2]:

 As the aforementioned document, as well as this thread, shows, there are many possible approaches and none of them without drawbacks. My personal feeling is that the WG should choose one asap, put it into the new RDF draft, and publish a new TR with that approach. The RDF community may (or may not...) react and see if it carries. Otherwise, we are in the danger of dragging this discussion on for a long time...

Please explore other ramifications, such as other impacts on the semantics, SPARQL functions and query formats, and other things I may have missed.

Gregg Kellogg
gregg@greggkellogg.net

[1] https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg/wiki/Text-Direction-considerations
[2] https://github.com/w3c/rdf-concepts/issues/9

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2023 23:04:47 UTC