Re: RDF Canonicalization is a Rec

Congratulations, and thanks to all who have made this possible, and then 
made it happen.

cheers

Chaals

On Tuesday, 21 May 2024 18:43:53 (+08:00), Phil Archer wrote:

 > Creating standards is never quick. Nor should it be. It takes time to 
reach consensus that something needs to be standardized, to ensure that 
there is a community that wants it and will implement it. Then you actually 
create the standard itself and prove it works. In this case, that initial 
phase took a long time. The need for an RDF Canonicalization algorithm was 
discussed back at the start of the Sem Web but there wasn't the consensus 
that it was needed or that there was a best way to do it. Once that need 
was agreed the work kicked off in September 2022 and now, less than 2 years 
later, RDFC is a W3C Recommendation. See 
https://www.w3.org/news/2024/rdf-dataset-canonicalization-is-a-w3c-recommendation/
 
> 
 > If you have an RDF graph and you want a canonical representation of it, 
for whatever reason, there's now a W3C Rec for that, along with a test 
suite and implementation reports.
 > 
 > Thanks are due to many people who have thought about this over the years 
including Jeremy Carrol and Aidan Hogan.  For the production of the Rec 
itself, thanks go especially to Dave Longley, David Lehn and Manu Sporny at 
Digital Bazaar; Gregg Kellogg as lead editor supported by Dave Longley and 
Dan Yamamoto. Active WG members include Sebastian Crane, Ted Thibodeau and 
Kazue Sako. Markus Sabadello and I had the privilege of working together as 
co-chairs with W3C staff Pierre-Antoine Champin and Ivan Herman.
 > 
 > Thanks everyone!
 > 
 > Phil
 > 
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