W3C SPARQL Working Group re-launched

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Ivan Herman

Sparql technology button The W3C SPARQL Working Group (formerly known as RDF Data Access Working Group) has now been re-chartered. Quoting from the charter (available publicly):

The mission of the SPARQL Working Group [...] is to produce a W3C Recommendation that extends SPARQL. The extension is a small set of additional feature that

  1. have been identified by the users as badly needed for applications, and
  2. have been identified by SPARQL implementers as reasonable and feasible extension to current implementations

Note that a strict backward compatibility with existing SPARQL design should be mantained, and currently no radical redefinition of the SPARQL language is envisaged.

See further details in the charter for the types of extensions that are envisaged at this stage. The discussions of the group are publicly archived.
W3C members are welcome to join the Working Group.

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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