Re: Proposed Charter: RDF Data Shapes Working Group (Call for Review)

["Mattmann, Chris A (3980)" <ch...@jpl.nasa.gov>]

Thanks for sharing, Andy.

Expanding your email to include dev@oodt.a.o and dev@tika.a.o since
both projects deal with RDF data too.

All, FYI below.

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Chris Mattmann, Ph.D.
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Instrument Software and Science Data Systems Section (398)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA
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Email: chris.a.mattmann@nasa.gov
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Seaborne <an...@apache.org>
Reply-To: "dev@any23.apache.org" <de...@any23.apache.org>
Date: Saturday, August 23, 2014 9:05 AM
To: "dev@marmotta.apache.org" <de...@marmotta.apache.org>,
"dev@clerezza.apache.org" <de...@clerezza.apache.org>,
"dev@stanbol.apache.org" <de...@stanbol.apache.org>, "dev@jena.apache.org"
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Subject: Proposed Charter: RDF Data Shapes Working Group (Call for Review)

>W3C is creating a new working group to work on the validation of RDF
>data. "Shapes" is code language for this.
>
>Since an initial draft of a charter, there has a been a lot of
>discussion of charter on the public W3C list:
>
>   public-rdf-shapes@w3.org
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-shapes/
>
>and this has resulted in a proposed charter:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/2014/data-shapes/charter
>
>"""
>Deliverables
>
>An RDF vocabulary, such as Resource Shapes 2.0, for expressing these
>shapes in RDF triples, so they can be stored, queried, analyzed, and
>manipulated with normal RDF tools, with some extensibility mechanism for
>complex use cases.
>
>Semantics, possibly defined as SPARQL operations, specifying how shapes
>are evaluated against RDF graphs.
>
>OPTIONAL - Compact, human-readable, non-RDF syntax for expressing
>constraints on RDF graph patterns (aka shapes), suitable for the use
>cases determined by the group.
>"""
>
>If any committer wants to comment, the Apache Software Foundation can
>respond to the formal request for comments.  We would need to produce a
>single, consolidated, agreed response.
>
>If any committer wants to participate, and does not work for an W3C
>member [*], Apache can nominate you to the working group.  (Note: you'll
>need to invest a significant amount of time to be effective and probably
>travel.  Apache does not provide any funding.)
>
>	Andy
>	W3C rep for ASF
>
>[*] If you work for a W3C member, you should go via that route or the
>legal issues may get very messy.
>