Re: Improving EXISTS

The CG has been created:

https://www.w3.org/community/sparql-exists/

where there is a link to the join process.

 Andy

On 01/07/16 12:27, Andy Seaborne wrote:
> Thank you everyone for the responses.
>
> I've started the Community Group creation process.  Please show your
> support at
>
>      https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/
>
> The next step is to wait for 5 people to support the creation of the CG,
> then W3C will create the infrastructure and we can begin.
>
> Once the creation process has happens, there are some suggestions from W3C:
>
> W3C page: "How do we get started in a new Community or Business Group?"
> https://www.w3.org/community/about/faq/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group
>
>
> W3C page "Good practice for running a group":
> https://www.w3.org/community/about/good-practice-for-running-a-group/
>
>      Andy
>
> On 30/06/16 12:40, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> There are bugs in the SPARQL specification with regards to EXISTS. The
>> RDF Data Shapes working group uses EXISTS, and other related mechanisms,
>> in SHACL [1].
>>
>> W3C process for corrections is recognized generally to be inflexible. It
>> is normally to wait for the next WG to run and end which is a multiyear
>> cycle - that does not fit with the RDF Data Shapes WG timescale.
>>
>> Community Groups can publish reports. These are not W3C standards. They
>> do provide a way to record consensus or enumerate alternatives. This
>> could be used to supplement the SPARQL errata process [2].
>>
>> A suggestion is to use the W3C Community Group mechanism to describe a
>> solution to this specific area in a timely manner. The CG would document
>> a solution and create tests to pass over to the "RDF Tests" CG [3].  If
>> there is no single consensus on one solution within the SPARQL
>> community, including implementers and users, we can at least document a
>> small set of approaches and note the approaches taken by implementations.
>>
>> Thoughts and comments?
>>
>> Please indicate if you would join such an effort.
>>
>>      Andy
>>
>> [1] http://w3c.github.io/data-shapes/shacl/
>> [2] https://www.w3.org/2013/sparql-errata
>> [3] https://www.w3.org/community/rdf-tests/
>>
>

Received on Friday, 1 July 2016 16:56:16 UTC