Re: Spec names

Dear Pat,

On 05/01/2023 21:18, Patrick J. Hayes wrote:

> I suggest rdf-semantics rather than the opaque and potentially misleading rdf-mt. That follows similar usage in using the main title used in primer, concpets, etc..

Yes, that was also suggested by Gregg on github [1] and during our call 
yesterday.

My understanding is that the group is generally in favour of this change.

   pa

[1] https://github.com/w3c/rdf-star-wg/issues/4#issuecomment-1368081174


>
> Pat
>
>> On Dec 16, 2022, at 9:18 AM, Pierre-Antoine Champin <pierre-antoine@w3.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> as decided during the last call, here is a proposal of a consistent naming for the specs in our charter.
>>
>> 1. Versionless names
>> Some of these names are already used, some have been changed for the sake of consistency.The idea is that all (including the existing ones) would now point to the latest version.
>>
>> rdf-primer
>> rdf-concepts
>> rdf-mt
>> rdf-n-quads (currently n-quads)
>> rdf-n-triples (currently from n-triples)
>> rdf-trig (currently trig)
>> rdf-turtle (currently turtle)
>> rdf-xml  (currently rdf-syntax-grammar, which does not make much sense anymore)
>> rdf-schema
>>
>> sparql-overview
>> sparql-query
>> sparql-update
>> sparql-results-json
>> sparql-results-xml
>> sparql-service-description
>> sparql-federated-query
>> sparql-entailment
>> sparql-protocol
>> sparql-results-csv-tsv
>>
>> There was a suggestion in the call to also prepend RDF to the sparql- documents. I didn't follow it because
>> - it makes very long "short names"
>> - it raises the question of other RDF-related specifications, such as json-ld or shacl...
>>
>>
>> 2. Versionned name infix
>>
>> For the version-specific shortnames, replace rdf- by rdf12- and sparql- by sparql12- .
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> rdf12-primer
>> rdf12-concepts
>> ...
>> sparql12-overview
>> sparql12-query
>> ...
>>
>>
>> 3. Versionned name postfix
>>
>> For the version-specific shortnames, append -12 at the end.
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> rdf-primer-12
>> rdf-concepts-12
>> ...
>> sparql-overview-12
>> sparql-query-12
>> ...
>>
>>
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Received on Friday, 6 January 2023 10:17:15 UTC