RE: Standardizing N3/Rules, was Re: ✅ Literals as subjects Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

Hi Nathan, Doerthe, and all,

I’d be quite interested in contributing (to the best of my ability) – I’ve been working in the health informatics domain for some time where rules are quite important to realize clinical decision support. I’ve done some work (cue the self-citations!) in computerizing and benchmarking OWL2 RL [0], optimizing RETE for semantic reasoning [1], and using (DL) rules for illness self-management [2] and assisted ambient living [3, 4]. In the health domain, semantic technologies are already widely employed for computerizing biomedical knowledge (just look at BioPortal) and we seem to be way past the bootstrapping phase.


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[0] Van Woensel, W., Abidi, S. S. R. (2018) Benchmarking Semantic Reasoning on Mobile Platforms: Towards Optimization Using OWL2 RL. Semantic Web Journal (preprint).
[1] Van Woensel, W., Abidi, S. S. R. (2018) Optimizing Semantic Reasoning on Memory-Constrained Platforms using the RETE Algorithm. In proceedings of 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2018), pp. 682–696, Springer LNCS, Heraklion, Greece.
[2] Van Woensel, W., Roy, P.C., Abidi, S., Abidi, S.S.R (2015) A Mobile and Intelligent Patient Diary for Chronic Disease Self-Management. In proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics (MEDINFO 2015): eHealth-enabled Health, pp. 118–122, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
[3] Van Woensel, W., Roy, P. C., Abidi, S.S.R. (2016) SmartRL: A Context-Sensitive, Ontology-Based Rule Language for Assisted Living in Smart Environments. In proceedings of Rule Technologies. Research, Tools, and Applications – 10th International Symposium, RuleML 2016, pp. 341–349, Stony Brook, NY, USA.
[4] Van Woensel, W., Roy, P. C., Abidi, S. S. R (2017) Achieving Pro-Active Guidance of Patients through ADL via Knowledge-Driven Activity Recognition and Complex Semantic Workflows. In proceedings of 10th International Conference on Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Life Sciences (SWAT4HCLS 2017), CEUR, Rome, Italy.

From: Nathan Rixham <nathan@webr3.org>
Sent: November-27-18 10:16 AM
To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>; Doerthe Arndt <doerthe.arndt@ugent.be>
Cc: Austin Wright <aaa@bzfx.net>; phayes@ihmc.us; David Booth <david@dbooth.org>; W3C Semantic Web IG <semantic-web@w3.org>; Dan Brickley <danbri@google.com>; Sean B. Palmer <sean@miscoranda.com>; Olaf Hartig <olaf.hartig@liu.se>; Axel Polleres <axel@polleres.net>; Ruben.Verborgh@ugent.be
Subject: Standardizing N3/Rules, was Re: ✅ Literals as subjects Re: Toward easier RDF: a proposal

Merging two threads together

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 9:30 AM Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org<mailto:timbl@w3.org>> wrote:
On 2018-11 -25, at 02:41, Nathan Rixham <nathan@webr3.org<mailto:nathan@webr3.org>> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Nov 2018, 02:28 Austin Wright <aaa@bzfx.net<mailto:aaa@bzfx.net> wrote:
However, if I should be able to make statements like this about strings, why not any data type? Why not an entire RDF graph, like { { <foo> a <bar> . } published “2014-02-28T00:00:00Z”^^xsd:dateTIme .  } ?

Very useful, +1
Well that is N3.

Standardizing N3 is I think beyond the scope of David’s plea o make rdf more approachable. But is a good idea also.

and

 On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:40 PM Doerthe Arndt <doerthe.arndt@ugent.be<mailto:doerthe.arndt@ugent.be>> wrote:

Logic. We have worked with N3 for years now and there are several reasons why I believe that it should be standardized ...

Call to action: who would support and/or join a W3C community group around an N3 rule language?

So far,
- Doerthe Arndt
- Jos De Roo
- Ruben Verborgh
- Nathan Rixham

Anybody else?