RDF 1.2 Concepts

I pushed the first of the RDF specs to GitHub, which you can see at https://w3c.github.io/rdf-concepts/spec. This is essentially just RDF 1.1 Concepts with minor updates for references and updated ReSpec. I did create a “Set of Documents” section [1], which is intended to be shared among all the specs, and will automatically note “this document”. Common files go into the /spec/common directory, although there’s no easy way I know of to synchronize them between the different repositories (Git submodules are certainly a possibility, but may be more trouble then they’re worth).

Additionally, I made a number of fixes to definitions, while preserving any old fragment identifiers so that documents which may link to, say, #dfn-nodes will still go to the right place, even though the proper exported term is #dfn-node. Also, in some cases there are terms defined duplicately in different specs (e.g., “entailment-regime” (#dfn-entaiilment-regime) should be defined in RDF Semantics, not RDF Concepts, which you may debate).

I haven’t otherwise addressed 1.2 vs 1.1 issues, and the former editors, acknowledges, and changes sections are largely untouched. At some point, issues should be created for Errata, and RDF-star updates that should be made in this, and other, specs.

ReSpec supports a term indexing feature, which you can see at [2] which we can use, at least temporarily, to note terms defined in this spec, and imported from other specs.

There is also a problem ReSpec reports ("ReSpec doesn't support expanding this kind of reference.”), which seems to be a ReSpec bug introduced by creating temporary bibliographic entries, and is reported at [3]. Presumably, the error will go away when the issue is addressed.

Based on feedback to this general layout (no normative updates intended), I can upload other RDF documents which use a similar structure.

Note that I will not be on the Thursday call this week, due to travel.

Gregg Kellogg
gregg@greggkellogg.net

[1] https://w3c.github.io/rdf-concepts/spec/#related
[2] https://w3c.github.io/rdf-concepts/spec/#index
[3] https://github.com/w3c/respec/issues/4362

Received on Monday, 16 January 2023 19:31:34 UTC