Re: Moving RDF* forward

On 10/14/2020 2:45 AM, Pierre-Antoine Champin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> RDF* is gaining traction, with more and more implementations; but to 
> avoid fragmentation, we need to build a consensus and a stable 
> specification for it.
>
> To achieve this goal, Olaf and I have started drafting a Community 
> Group report, which is available here:
>
> https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star/
>
Great! Thanks for starting this.
>
> It is hosted on a github repo <https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star/> 
> (linked from the report), which we can use to structure the 
> discussion: feel free to submit issues or pull requests if you have 
> suggestions or requests about the content of this report.
>
> Opening issues and discussions is good, but closing them with 
> consensual resolutions is better ;-) We feel that asynchronous 
> discussion alone will not get us there, so we propose to organize a 
> weekly call to make decisions more efficiently. It would be great in 
> particular if people having already implemented RDF* could 
> participate, to give us feedback on what is possible or not, what 
> works well and what does not. We invite anyone interested to fill in 
> this Doodle poll:
>
> https://doodle.com/poll/vax2g6y3nh5ksxxr
>
> Please note that:
>
> * the actual dates are not relevant, only the day-of-week and 
> timeslots (I chose dates after Europe and US switch to DST, to see how 
> the timeslots align in the longer term, but we can start earlier if 
> needed);
>
> * the timeslots are within working(ish) hours for both Europe and US, 
> as it seems that most people on the mailing list are in these regions; 
> sincere apologies for the others -- if you really want to participate 
> but can not join on any of the proposed slot, let us know.
>
Yeah, the bane of living in Australia is that such meetings are often 
impossible to attend. None of the times work for me but I will try to 
contribute in written form, esp working towards 
https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star/issues/9 which we consider critical 
before we can fully migrate from our home-grown reification solution to 
RDF*.

Holger


> Looking forward to your feedback,
>
>     Pierre-Antoine & Olaf
>