Re: Request for RIF assistance from GeoSPARQL SWG

Follow-up to the assertion about the use of "Probably rifps+xml":

The appendix on RIF Media Type registration [1] states:

"This media type [application/rif+xml] is intended to be shared with other
RIF dialects, to be specified in the future. Interoperation between the
dialects is governed by the RIF specifications."

I find this hard to follow since Presentation and Abstract Syntaxes are
_not_ XML. Not sure what to do here. I will contact the original
proponent - Sandro Hawk - about this.

Nick


[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/rif-core/#Appendix:_RIF_Media_Type_Registration

On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 7:53 PM Nicholas Car <
nicholas.car@surroundaustralia.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for your response points. We will investigate validation with RIF4J
> if and only if we make further use of RIF than just this one document and
> the corresponding one for GeoSPARQL 1.1 we will surely produce.
>
> Regarding the Media Type "application/rif+xml": I make take it upon myself
> to register this, if we make wider use of RIF.
>
> Regarding your assertion that the Media Type for Presentation Syntax
> documents is "Probably rifps+xml", as in "application/rifps+xml", well it
> can't be since the Presentation Syntax is clearly not XML! It would perhaps
> have to be "text/rifps" or similar. If I take on the above, I make take on
> this one too.
>
> Regards,
>
> Nick
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 7:38 PM Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.stonybrook.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your email. Some answers within. Hope somebody else can fill
>> in the gaps in my answers.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/3/21 9:51 PM, Nicholas Car wrote:
>>
>> Dear RIF Dev Mailing list,
>>
>> We, the GeoSPARQL Standards Working Group, are updating the OGC's
>> GeoSPARQL specification, first published in 2012 which we refer to as
>> GeoSPARQL 1.0. We wish to better present the specification in
>> machine-readable form and to update it producing GeoSPARQL 1.1.
>>
>> GeoSPARQL 1.0 includes a template for a set of RIF rules [1]. We would
>> like to expand this template to produce a RIF artifact that can be included
>> in the set of GeoSPARQL 1.0 resources. We will also produce a GeoSPARQL 1.1
>> RIF artifact within the next few months.
>>
>> Please could you assist us with the following points:
>>
>> 1. Validity of our 1.0 RIF document
>>     a. We have not been able to find any operating RIF validators listed
>> by the RIF WG [2] other than perhaps RIF4J [3]. Can you indicate others, in
>> particular, any that are online?
>>
>>
>> It seems that RIF4J is the only validator that is still available.
>>
>>
>>
>>     b. Have any multi-format RIF validators been produced, specifically
>> for XML and Presentation Syntax?
>>
>>
>> See above.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. Presentation of our 1.0 RIF document
>>     a. The Media Type "application/rif+xml" is indicated for use for RIF
>> documents [4] but it is not registered with IANA's Media Types list [5].
>> Can you clarify the status of the RIF Media Type?
>>
>>
>> This was the intent. The working group chairs were supposed to see to it
>> that the media types are registered, but apparently didn't.
>>
>>
>>
>>     b. Assuming a RIF document in XML is to use the Media Type
>> "application/rif+xml" and the file extension ".rif", what should a
>> Presentation Syntax document use? Should it use ".rifps" for the file
>> extension, as per WG examples like [6] but then what Media Type?
>>
>>
>> Probably rifps+xml. Again, somebody was supposed to do it, but dropped
>> this task.
>>
>>
>>     c. We intend to present the RIF artifacts for GeoSPARQL 1.0 and 1.1
>> online with persistent URIs that will resolve and communicate resource
>> Media Types via HTTP Content Negotiation. We could present multiple media
>> types for the same artifact (RIF in XML & Presentation Syntax). Does this
>> have precedent in the RIF community?
>>
>>
>> This sounds reasonable. I do not recall seeing a precedent though.
>>
>>
>>
>> Next I include a snippet of our RIF document below. It is highly
>> repetitive so I have only included the first 2 ForAll elements.
>>
>>
>> The snippet looks good.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Michael Kifer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------
>> Document (
>>     Prefix (geo <http://www.opengis.net/ont/geosparql#>)
>>     Prefix (geof <http://www.opengis.net/def/function/geosparql/>)
>>
>>     Group (
>>         # geo:sfEquals
>>         Forall ?f1 ?f2 ?g1 ?g2 ?g1Serial ?g2Serial (
>>             ?f1[geo:sfEquals->?f2] :-
>>             Or (
>>                 # feature – feature rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f1[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g1]
>>                     ?f2[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g2]
>>                     ?g1[geo:gmlLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?g2[geo:gmlLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>                 # feature – geometry rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f1[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g1]
>>                     ?g1[geo:gmlLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?f2[geo:gmlLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>                 # geometry - feature rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f2[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g2]
>>                     ?f1[geo:gmlLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?g2[geo:gmlLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>                 # geometry - geometry rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f1[geo:gmlLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?f2[geo:gmlLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>             )
>>         )
>>
>>         # geo:sfEquals
>>         Forall ?f1 ?f2 ?g1 ?g2 ?g1Serial ?g2Serial (
>>             ?f1[geo:sfEquals->?f2] :-
>>             Or (
>>                 # feature – feature rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f1[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g1]
>>                     ?f2[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g2]
>>                     ?g1[geo:wktLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?g2[geo:wktLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>                 # feature – geometry rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f1[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g1]
>>                     ?g1[geo:wktLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?f2[geo:wktLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>                 # geometry - feature rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f2[geo:hasDefaultGeometry->?g2]
>>                     ?f1[geo:wktLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?g2[geo:wktLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>                 # geometry - geometry rule
>>                 And (
>>                     ?f1[geo:wktLiteral->?g1Serial]
>>                     ?f2[geo:wktLiteral->?g2Serial]
>>                     External(geof:sfEquals (?g1Serial,?g2Serial))
>>                 )
>>             )
>>         )
>>
>>         # repetition of the ForAll elements for all GeoSPARQL relations
>>
>>     )
>> )
>> ----------
>>
>> Any further comments on our use of RIF would be greatly appreciated too!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nicholas
>> --
>> Dr Nicholas J. Car
>> Data Systems Architect
>> SURROUND Australia Pty Ltd
>>
>> GeoSPARQL QG member
>>
>> References
>> ---------------
>> [1] GeoSPARQL 1.0. http://www.opengis.net/doc/IS/geosparql/1.0. See
>> Clause 11, p 30.
>> [2] None of the other validators listed at
>> https://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/Implementations seem to be online
>> other than perhaps RIF4J
>> [3] http://rif4j.sourceforge.net/
>> [4] https://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wiki/RIF_In_RDF#Namespaces
>> [5] https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml
>> [6]
>> https://www.w3.org/2005/rules/test/repository/tc/Class_Membership/Class_Membership-premise.rifps
>>
>>
>
>

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