W3C

– DRAFT –
Data Shapes WG telelconference

03 March 2025

Attendees

Present
bergos, elianaP, HolgerK, nicholascar, Robert, Simon, simonstey, YoucTagh
Regrets
-
Chair
Eliana, Nick
Scribe
Carine, caribou

Meeting minutes

Node Expressions

Issue 222

Holger: the goal is to define node expressions and cover the most basic use cases
… there are no change to Core
… The group needs agreement to push to the main branch

Nick: I suggest that it gets resolved in GH
… it would be a new deliverable?

Holger: It does not add a deliverable, it's a PR to add text into Core

Robert: no objection from my side

AlexN: I don't want to hold up this PR nor FPWD publication

Nick: we'll get to the concerns about shacl-shacl elsewhere

AndyS: I asked Ted to re-review because changes were made
… not sure whether it's good that anyone can block a PR

AndyS: I want to see progress to FPWD

Nick: it does not seem that other issues will affect the publication decision
… how many responses to the CfC?

AndyS: are we putting this PR in before publication?

<Zakim> HolgerK, you wanted to say that sh:this is not in this PR and we will likely not use it moving forward.

Holger: all URIs will be treated uniformly, I think AlexN's issue has been resolved

<nicholascar> Following this meeting we will ask all members to re-review as per the CFC due to recent (last week's) changes.

<nicholascar> After FPWDs we will likely move to automatic publication where merged PRs automatically publish

AlexN: do we need to respond to CfC by email?

Nick: yes

sh:shapeClass

Holger: 1 review said it could confuse RDF engines

AlexN: my concern is still there
… there's rdfs:class
… it's a long discussion thread

<simonstey> w3c/data-shapes#212

PR 264

Holger: already merged

<AndyS> https://w3c.github.io/data-shapes/shacl12-core/#changes-12

<AndyS> The changes section of SHACL core

Holger: I think we can have Changes from GH?

Nick: We should just record bigger changes, GH history would include too many small things

Tomasz: I'd like a place to ask questions and have discussions

AndyS: I created an open-ended issue

Andy's issue

Nick: things must be actioned in issues, but discussion can happen elsewhere

Bergos: when we open discussion for everything there might be too much noise

Nick: we need to have discipline to avoid non-spec discussions
… we will close issues when it's just discussions

SHACL Inferencing - WG asking on the public list for use cases requirements

AndyS: we need the input from the WG

AlexN: we have a tag for that in GH issues tracker

Consider using W3C WBS (W3C's web based voting and questionaire system) for CfC's

Nick: we can do that for the next time we need a CfC.

Addressing Older Issues

Nick: I think we can close some of those old issues
… I grouped them in the agenda

AlexN: I see low-hanging fruits
… can I self-assign in GH?

Nick: yes

AlexN: volunteers to maintain shacl-shacl

Nick: the document might not be normative

ajnelson-nist: there might be issues with tools/code
… it might be normative

Tomasz: I think it needs a separate process
… someone could refactor and have the same shapes in the end

Eliana: last time we discussed making it a non-normative note
… to be able to maintain without the constraint to make changes

Nick: we can have the model (normative) in a doc and a schema that is not

Eliana: agree with that approach

Nick: the shacl file would be hosted by W3C somewhere

AlexN: @@@

Nick: the CG was active to maintain things before, so we would able to maintain later on
… it can be a phase 2 document as a WG Note

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 244 (Thu Feb 27 01:23:09 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/@@@/PR 264

Succeeded: s/AndyS: there might be/ajnelson-nist: there might be/

Maybe present: ajnelson-nist, AlexN, AndyS, Eliana, Holger, Nick, Tomasz

All speakers: ajnelson-nist, AlexN, AndyS, Bergos, Eliana, Holger, Nick, Robert, Tomasz

Active on IRC: ajnelson-nist, AndyS, bergos, caribou, elianaP, HolgerK, nicholascar, Robert, Simon, simonstey, tpluscode, YoucTagh