Transition Request Oct 2012

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This is a transition request, and also serves as an agenda for a Transition Meeting with the Director.

See [@@@ @@@archived e-mail version].

This is a mixed transition request, with documents going to CR, PR, and PER.

1 Documents

We propose to publish the following eleven documents as Proposed Recommendation (PR), Candidate Recommendation (CR), or Proposed Edited Recommendation (PER), as indicated. For each document, in this section, we provide information in the following form:

     	(proposed status) for (title)
	(Latest TR Version URL)
	(Current Editor's draft URL)
	(URL of Resolution to Publish)

	      (Abstract)

Details for the eleven documents follow:


PR for "SPARQL 1.1 Overview"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-overview/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/sparql11-overview/Overview.xml
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-02#resolution_8

	This document is an overview of SPARQL 1.1. It provides an
	introduction to a set of W3C specifications that facilitate
	querying and manipulating RDF graph content on the Web or in
	an RDF store.


PR for "SPARQL 1.1 Query Language"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-query/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/query1.1/rq25.xml
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-02#resolution_2

	RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing
	information in the Web. This specification defines the syntax
	and semantics of the SPARQL query language for RDF. SPARQL can
	be used to express queries across diverse data sources,
	whether the data is stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF
	via middleware. SPARQL contains capabilities for querying
	required and optional graph patterns along with their
	conjunctions and disjunctions. SPARQL also supports
	aggregation, subqueries, negation, creating values by
	expressions, extensible value testing, and constraining
	queries by source RDF graph. The results of SPARQL queries can
	be result sets or RDF graphs.


PR for "SPARQL 1.1 Update"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-update/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/update-1.1/Overview.xml
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-09#resolution_2

	This document describes SPARQL 1.1 Update, an update language
	for RDF graphs. It uses a syntax derived from the SPARQL Query
	Language for RDF. Update operations are performed on a
	collection of graphs in a Graph Store.  Operations are
	provided to update, create, and remove RDF graphs in a Graph
	Store.

PR for "SPARQL1.1 Service Description"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-service-description/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/service-description-1.1/xmlspec.xml
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-09#resolution_6

	This document describes SPARQL service description, a method
	for discovering, and vocabulary for describing SPARQL services
	made available via the SPARQL 1.1 Protocol for RDF
	[SPROT]. These descriptions provide a mechanism by which a
	client or end user can discover information about the SPARQL
	service such as supported extension functions and details
	about the available dataset.

PR for "SPARQL 1.1 Federated Query"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-federated-query/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/fed/service.xml
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-09#resolution_7

	RDF is a directed, labeled graph data format for representing
	information in the Web. SPARQL can be used to express queries
	across diverse data sources, whether the data is stored
	natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. This
	specification defines the syntax and semantics of SPARQL 1.1
	Federated Query extension for executing queries distributed
	over different SPARQL endpoints. The SERVICE keyword extends
	SPARQL 1.1 to support queries that merge data distributed
	across the Web.


PR for "SPARQL 1.1 Query Results JSON Format"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-results-json/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/json-results/json-results.xml
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-02#resolution_6
	
        SPARQL is a set of standards for the query and update of RDF
        data, along with ways to access such data over the web.  This
        document describes the representation of SELECT and ASK query
        results using JSON.
      

PR for "SPARQL 1.1 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-results-csv-tsv/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/csv-tsv-results/results-csv-tsv.html
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-02#resolution_7

	 The formats CSV [RFC4180] (comma separated values) and TSV
	 [IANA-TSV] (tab separated values) provide simple, easy to
	 process formats for the transmission of tabular data. They
	 are supported as input datat formats to many tools,
	 particularly spreadsheets. This document describes their use
	 for expressing SPARQL query results from SELECT queries.


PER for "SPARQL Query Results XML Format (Second Edition)"
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-XMLres/
@@@
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-09#resolution_9

	RDF is a flexible, extensible way to represent information
	about World Wide Web resources. It is used to represent, among
	other things, personal information, social networks, metadata
	about digital artifacts like music and images, as well as
	provide a means of integration over disparate sources of
	information. A standardized query language for RDF data with
	multiple implementations offers developers and end users a way
	to write and to consume the results of queries across this
	wide range of information.

	This document describes an XML format for the variable binding
	and boolean results formats provided by the SPARQL query
	language for RDF, developed by the W3C RDF Data Access Working
	Group (DAWG), part of the Semantic Web Activity as described
	in the activity statement .


CR for "SPARQL 1.1 Entailment Regimes"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-entailment/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/entailment/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-09#resolution_4

	SPARQL is a query language and a protocol for data that is
	stored natively as RDF or viewed as RDF via middleware. The
	main mechanism for computing query results in SPARQL is
	subgraph matching: RDF triples in both the queried RDF data
	and the query pattern are interpreted as nodes and edges of
	directed graphs, and the resulting query graph is matched to
	the data graph using variables as wild cards. Various W3C
	standards, including RDF and OWL, provide semantic
	interpretations for RDF graphs that allow additional RDF
	statements to be inferred from explicitly given
	assertions. Many applications that rely on these semantics
	require a query language such as SPARQL, but in order to use
	SPARQL, basic graph pattern matching has to be defined using
	semantic entailment relations instead of explicitly given
	graph structures. There are different possible ways of
	defining a basic graph pattern matching extension for an
	entailment relation. This document specifies one such way for
	a range of standard semantic web entailment relations. Such
	extensions of the SPARQL semantics are called entailment
	regimes within this document. An entailment regime defines not
	only which entailment relation is used, but also which queries
	and graphs are well-formed for the regime, how the entailment
	is used (since there are potentially different meaningful ways
	to use the same entailment relation), and what kinds of errors
	can arise. The entailment relations used in this document are
	standard entailment relations in the semantic web: RDF
	entailment, RDFS entailment, D-entailment, OWL Direct and
	RDF-Based Semantics entailment, and RIF Core entailment.


CR for "SPARQL 1.1 Protocol"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-protocol/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/protocol-1.1/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-09#resolution_5
	
	The SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language (SPARQL) is a query
	language and protocol for RDF. This document specifies the
	SPARQL Protocol; it describes a means for conveying SPARQL
	queries and updates to a SPARQL processing service and
	returning the results via HTTP to the entity that requested
	them. This protocol was developed by the W3C SPARQL Working
	Group, part of the Semantic Web Activity as described in the
	activity statement .


CR for "SPARQL 1.1 Graph Store HTTP Protocol"
http://www.w3.org/TR/sparql11-http-rdf-update/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/docs/http-rdf-update/
http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/meeting/2012-10-09#resolution_8

	This document describes the use of HTTP operations for the
	purpose of managing a collection of RDF graphs. This interface
	is an alternative to the SPARQL 1.1 Update protocol. Most of
	the operations defined here can be performed using that
	interface, but for some clients or servers, this interface may
	be easier to implement or work with. This specification may
	serve as a non-normative suggestion for HTTP operations on RDF
	graphs which are managed outside of a SPARQL 1.1 graph store.

2 Status Sections

3 Changes since Last Call

See the documents themselves:

All of these changes are minor and editorial.

4 Satisfies Group's Requirements

The requirements have not changed since the previous transition. None of the many reviews have claimed that the documents fail to satisfy the group's requirements.

The charter deliverables are by the group's publications, along with the test suite website.

5 Dependencies

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6 Received Wide Review

See list of comments: http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/wiki/Comments

7 Issues Formally Addressed

See:

Working Group Issue List - 66 issues, all closed
Responses to public comments

8 Objections

There have been no formal objections.

9 Implementations

The group maintains a [http://www.w3.org/2009/sparql/implementations/

table of implementations and test results] ([@@@ @@@snapshot 9 October 2012]).

The group [@@@ @@@ approved] the exit criteria of have each approved test past by two or more implementations.

10 Patent Disclosures

None.

Transition Request Oct 2012

From SPARQL Working Group

Revision as of 00:45, 12 October 2012

Contents

1 Documents

2 Status Sections

3 Changes since Last Call

4 Satisfies Group's Requirements

5 Dependencies

6 Received Wide Review

7 Issues Formally Addressed

8 Objections

9 Implementations

10 Patent Disclosures

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