Re: Notation3 Community Group Report Release

Dear Hans,

It is a very good idea to combine efforts on N3 and RDF 1.2, but I am afraid that N3 is too complex to be added directly to RDF 1.2. More concrete: N3 allows the use of graphs as terms just like RDF-star supports triples as terms. The latter already causes a lot of discussions since different potential users (naturally) have different expectations. I guess a more complex construct of similar nature will even create more tension.

Therefore, the N3 working group plans to wait for the outcome of RDF 1.2 to then incorporate the (possible) changes of RDF to N3. Note that some reasoners like for example EYE (https://github.com/eyereasoner/eye) already support RDF-star. So far, I do not see major problems if we want to include RDF-star to N3 (of course that will also depend on the semantics chosen, EYE currently follows the community group report).

Kind regards,
Dörthe



Am 04.07.2023 um 10:16 schrieb hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl<mailto:hans.teijgeler@quicknet.nl>:

Is it a dumb suggestion to combine this N3 effort with the earlier reported RDF 1.2 one, in order to avoid divergence?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Booth <david@dbooth.org<mailto:david@dbooth.org>>
Sent: Monday, 3 July 2023 21:11
To: semantic-web@w3.org<mailto:semantic-web@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Notation3 Community Group Report Release

On 7/3/23 13:29, William Van Woensel wrote:
We are happy to inform you that the first Notation3 Community Group
Report has been released: https://w3c.github.io/N3/spec/

<https://w3c.github.io/N3/spec/>

Awesome!   Great work!

Thanks,
David Booth



Notation3 (also known as N3) is an assertion and logic language that
is a superset of Turtle, featuring logical implications (rules), graph
terms, and builtins ranging from datatype operations to accessing
online knowledge and performing scoped negation as failure.

We also created an educational resource as a lightweight introduction
to
Notation3 (which also lists currently available resources):
https://notation3.org/ <https://notation3.org/>

We invite you to submit any feedback or issues to our GitHub page:
https://github.com/w3c/N3 <https://github.com/w3c/N3>


Kind regards,

W3C N3 CG Group