W3C

– DRAFT –
Data Shapes WG

03 November 2025

Attendees

Present
AndyS, bergos, caribou, DavidHabgood, elianaP, HolgerK, nicholascar, Robert, simonstey, SimonW, TallTed
Regrets
-
Chair
nicholascar
Scribe
edmond

Meeting minutes

Discussion

Task Force Reports

HolgerK: Core: mostly editorial with a PR merged in by bergos today.
… SPARQL: No updates
… Node Expressions: A PR waiting for approval for the SPARQL function change
… simonstey will work on a PR towards getting it out of draft
… We are at a good point now after the above PR is complete to start working on the test cases.

<simonstey> this was the other PR HolgerK was talking about: w3c/data-shapes#526

nicholascar: Profiling: added a few use cases to GitHub issues
… Profiling packaging mechanics using owl:imports with added examples on a PR
… Thanks TallTed on reviewing the PR and working on some of the language of the document
… Once the pull request is merged, I will forward it to the Data Exchange WG to demonstrate usage evidence of the Profiles Vocabulary.

edmond: UI: One/Two PRs merged and still discussing core UI concepts

nicholascar: Rules: A couple of use cases for rules from the Australian Biodiversity Data Repository project.

Sorry AndyS, I missed your update for the notes

elianaP: Compact Syntax Update: No update from members

<AndyS> There will be a rule TF meeting tomorrow (4th Nov) to discuss the content of the rules doc.

HolgerK: Thanks to nicholascar for fixing the GitHub Actions build. Search engines will now properly index the published documents

Wide Review

<TallTed> note that Rules TF is now at 5am ET, 2am PT, making attendance even less likely for most if not all US, Canada, etc.

nicholascar: Sending out an email summarising the SHACL 1.2 in the Overview document and a couple of others. Could the group review the documents in the agenda and see whether anyone objects to the wide review.

AndyS: Not a lot of time for the end of the month. RDF WG aims to have a 2 month review. Perhaps we could make it till the end of December.

nicholascar: To contact RDF and SPARQL WG

nicholascar: I've done the self assessment accessibility review, mainly for UI.
… Will check to see if SHACL Core document meets the structural semantics
… At the end of the review period, will move to CR.

caribou: Suggest creating a GitHub issue relating to Core and SPARQL's review and also create issues in the other relevant GitHub repositories to track this.

HolgerK: Is there a chance to move the meeting an hour earlier for the members in QLD, Australia?

TallTed: It will be 7AM if we shift it an hour earlier for some US members

nicholascar: Should we do a poll?

bergos: We could alternate every week for one hour earlier and the current time

<HolgerK> earlier

<nicholascar> split or earlier

<simonstey> -1 split; +0 don't care for earlier/later

<DavidHabgood> split or earlier

earlier

<mgberg> split or earlier

<elianaP> earlier

<SimonW> Split or Earlier

<caribou> 0

<TallTed> split or later ... though split will lose lots of people to confusion

<AndyS> -1 split (people forget), 0 for slot.

<Livio> 0

<bergos> 0

<Robert> -1 split

nicholascar: Group decision - move it an hour earlier

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All speakers: AndyS, bergos, caribou, edmond, elianaP, HolgerK, nicholascar, TallTed

Active on IRC: AndyS, bergos, caribou, DavidHabgood, edmond, elianaP, HolgerK, Livio, mgberg, nicholascar, Robert, simonstey, SimonW, TallTed