Re: expanding work from quoted triples to graph terms

Dear all,

I agree with Peter.

Adding graph terms (although interesting) will require a significant amount of work, and is very unlikely to be completed before the end of the working group (28 August 2024).
So I would also prefer on prioritizing work as defined in the charter.
Another option might be to halt the current WG and recharter if the group believes that triple terms are not the right way to go.

Kind regards,
Ruben Taelman

> On 19 Oct 2023, at 18:56, Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfpschneider@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The charter of this working group is very explicit its goal is to add quoted triples to RDF, and no other additions.  Renaming this new construct to triple terms is a reasonable change as all it does is change terminology and not implementation.  But my view is that expanding from quoted triples to quoted graphs or graph terms is a major expansion.  I'm not against this expansion but I believe that the working group should first do the work that it is chartered to do and only then explore something else.
> 
> So what else is needed to add triple terms to the RDF documents (ignoring the SPARQL documents for now)?   As far as I can tell the only technical work for the RDF documents that remains is semantics.   But semantics appears to be dependent of use cases.
> 
> So my suggestion is that the working group take a look at the use cases (and potentially submit new use cases) and determine which ones the working group will support.  Then a semantics that supports these use cases can be devised. Once this is done then the working group can look at graph terms if it so decides.
> 
> There is also SPARQL work to be done and this should also be prioritized over work on graph terms.
> 
> peter
>

Received on Friday, 20 October 2023 07:01:56 UTC