W3C

– DRAFT –
Data Shapes WG

08 December 2025

Attendees

Present
AndyS, bergos, Carine, edmond, HolgerK, ieben, mgberg, nicholascar, SimonW, YoucTagh
Regrets
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Chair
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Scribe
HolgerK

Meeting minutes

Phase 1 deliverables

nicholascar: Notifications to wide review went out, not much feedback yet
… how many people are ACs?

nicholascar: discussion on how to reach more people
… created github issues for some groups

caribou: other chairs will get notifications automatically, pinging selected chairs personally should help

nicholascar: Which other groups? Dataset Exchange, RDF 1.2

caribou: We can also contact Community Groups

nicholascar: Spatial on the Web may be interested

Task Force Reports

HolgerK: Little changes to Core, SPARQL and Node Expressions

YoucTagh: Meeting on Profiling last week, Matthias joined us

<YoucTagh> https://diggsweden.github.io/interoperable-specifications/docs/#rules-for-application-profiles-shacl-inspe

<nicholascar> Matthais' focaus is "INSPEC" that work linked above

nicholascar: Report on ideas for profiling

edmond: UI weekly meeting, not that much progress. Named graphs may be covered by UI but not reused in Core.

DavidHabgood: Read through the PR, wrote some test cases on Rules

AndyS: Created PR with tests, trying to contact external implementations, such as the Eye Reasoner
… other Datalog engines may be of interest and may be interested in our Rules work.
… would be good to ping the N3 Community Group.

nicholascar: Question on Eye reasoner

AndyS: Some triple stores have rule implementations, unclear whether Datalog
… including Jena which predates SHACL
… Stardog has rules on database
… Uniprot/Jerven also uses rules

general business

caribou: Rules draft will be published as FPWD tomorrow

bergos: Node Expressions test cases?

HolgerK: There is a ticket to create these tests, probably assigned to me.
… waiting for the merge of Simon's functions.

nicholascar: Planning for meetings, definitely next week but unclear after that

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Maybe present: caribou, DavidHabgood

All speakers: AndyS, bergos, caribou, DavidHabgood, edmond, HolgerK, nicholascar, YoucTagh

Active on IRC: AndyS, bergos, caribou, HolgerK, ieben, nicholascar, YoucTagh