HP supports the work of W3C in chartering a new RDF Data Access Working Group.
HP has worked with other member organizations on the "SPARQL Update" submission
to W3C. HP believes that goal of the working group should be viewed as moving
SPARQL forward, not completing SPARQL.
The mission of the Working Group, to extend SPARQL with a small set of features
that have been identified by users and application writers as important, and
also by implementers as reasonable and feasible, should be the main focus. HP
hopes the working group will use this to keep to the milestones and dates in
the charter.
There will be, and should be, proposals to enhance SPARQL beyond what the
working group can accomplish. HP would like to see the working group capture
newly emerging consensus though all possible means, not just recommendation
track work in the fixed timeframe of the working group.
Best regards,
Jim Bell
AC Rep, Hewlett-Packard Company
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian B. Jacobs
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:26 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RDF Data Access Working Group Charter in Development (Advance Notice)
Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
This is an advance notice that the Team is currently working on a new charter
[1] for a RDF Data Access Working Group.
The mission of the RDF Data Access Working Group, part of the Semantic Web
Activity, is to produce a W3C Recommendation that extends SPARQL.
The extension is a small set of additional features that:
- have been identified by the users as badly needed for applications,
and
- have been identified by SPARQL implementers as reasonable and feasible
extension to current implementations
We welcome your general expressions of interest and support on <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>. Please send any substantive comments in response to this email as
appropriate to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, which has a Member archive [2]. If you wish
to make your comments public, please use <[email protected]> (archive
[3]).
If you should have any questions or need further information, please feel free
to contact Eric Prud'hommeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or Ivan Herman <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]>.
A formal Advisory Commitee Review for this charter is expected in November 2008.
This announcement follows section 6.2.2 of the Process Document [4].
For Tim Berners-Lee, Director and
Ivan Herman, Semantic Web Activity Lead; Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications
[1] http://www.w3.org/2008/09/dawg-charter.html
[2] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-semweb-comment/
[3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sparql-dev/
[4]
http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/groups#WGCharterDevelopment
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Ian Jacobs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel: +1 718 260-9447
