SPARQL is a Candidate Recommendation

Posted on June 15, 2007 by Ivan Herman

W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of SPARQL Query Language for RDF to Candidate Recommendation. SPARQL has become an essential part of the Semantic Web technology landscape, and the publication as Candidate Recommendation is an essential milestone. The specification includes two features-at-risk: the REDUCED feature, and the allowance of leading digits in prefixed names. The feedback of the implementor and user communities is essential in deciding on whether those features should be retained in the final Recommendation or not.
The SPARQL Query Results XML Format has also been republished as Last Call Working Draft with a short comment period until early July. The only change, compared to earlier versions, is the removal of the ordered and distinct attributes of the results element: these attributes have been considered as redundant. Again, the feedback of the user community is essential to decide whether applications depend on this feature or not.

About Ivan Herman

Ivan Herman is the Semantic Web Activity Lead at W3C. He graduated as a mathematician at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest, Hungary, in 1979. After a brief scholarship at the Université Paris VI he joined the Hungarian research institute in computer science (SZTAKI) where he worked for 6 years. He left Hungary in 1986 and, after a few years in industry, he joined the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Sciences (CWI) in Amsterdam where he has held a tenure position since 1988. He received a PhD degree in Computer Science in 1990 at the Leiden University, in the Netherlands. Ivan joined the W3C team as Head of Offices in January 2001 while maintaining his position at CWI. He served as Head of Offices until June 2006, when he was asked to take the Semantic Web Activity Lead position.

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