33d TREE CG minutes

Hi all,

We’ve had an end of the year meeting:

Attendees:  Xueying Deng, Thomas Bergwinkl, Ranko Orlic, Julián Rojas 
and myself

Minutes:

## Discovery

Julián is working on a query shape subsumption algorithm to do discovery 
based on SHACL shapes. 
https://dishacled.github.io/discovery-specification/#algorithm

==> an implementation is on-going and this can then be used as input for 
a client algorithm for the TREE CG.

## Test framework

https://github.com/TREEcg/specification/pull/154

Julián is slowly going to test this by implementing it in a TREE client 
for geospatial querying

## SHACL based relations

SHACL profiles are coming, so that we can constrain SHACL constraints 
and can decide what we put into a SHACL based relation and what we don’t 
(e.g., conditionals can make it very complex).

Current proposal lives in this comment: 
https://github.com/TREEcg/specification/issues/115#issuecomment-3652159450

Very positive reactions to this proposal... but this means we will have 
2 ways of doing the same thing. We propose working on versioning the 
spec (next point)

We will also need to discuss what to do with geospatial and substring 
relations: can they be taken over by a node shape relation? It’s unsure 
(Christophe Debruyne did some work though: 
https://www.smalsresearch.be/download/presentations/2021-06-07-geoshacl.pdf)

## Versioning and ambitions

Let’s try to finish:

  1. the MEA algorithm in a light version in line with the LDES spec

  2. the 1.0 test cases

and throw out the discovery note at this moment.

Then we can publish a 1.0 TREE CG final report early in 2026.

Afterwards we can then start a 2026-2027 trajectory in which we try to 
publish a 2.0 final report in which we:

  1. Try to solve discovery

  2. Introduce SHACL-based relations and deprecate existing TREE relations

  3. Integrate with the RDF Messages proposal of the RSP CG: 
https://w3c-cg.github.io/rsp/spec/messages

## AoB

  * https://github.com/TREEcg/specification/issues/155 → we replied here

  * We booked new meetings, now always at 10 am on a Thursday. Check the 
calendar!

Kind regards,

Pieter

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Received on Thursday, 18 December 2025 09:53:28 UTC