W3C

– DRAFT –
Data Shapes WG

15 December 2025

Attendees

Present
AndyS, bergos, caribou, DavidHabgood, edmond, elianaP, ieben, mgberg, nicholascar, simonstey, SimonW, YoucTagh
Regrets
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Chair
elianaP
Scribe
simonstey

Meeting minutes

FPWD

elianaP: SHACL Core and SHACL SPARQL are now live as of last week
… should now be on auto update

TF Updates

elianaP: no updates on core/sparql?

elianaP: profiling?

nicholascar: nothing to report since last week, have a meeting later this week

edmond: finished widget scoring; also started initial implementation
… will be sharing this with the group tmrw
… hopefully get something into a PR later this week/next week
… learned more about node expressions and how to utilize it for SHACL UI

<AndyS> w3c/data-shapes#697

edmond: we will skip then the next couple of meetings (over xmas/ny)

AndyS: <asking about status of publishing node expression document>

nicholascar: I thought it was already set to autopublishing

caribou: rules were published to TR last week, but not node expr
… will update the scripts to include node-expr all

AndyS: so are we publishing node-expr to TR as well?

elianaP: yes

<caribou> I will add the GH workflow to autopublish Rules

AndyS: this week's TF meeting will be on Wed the 17th 11:30 CET
… the topic for wed. is stuff about stratification

elianaP: no one from CS group right now

simonstey: I've also a web tool

nicholascar: we've a couple of implementations for SHACL rules

DavidHabgood: I've a javascript implementation, but I need to tidy it up
… will be open source

caribou: we need to record the resolution that we publish the node expr wd
… we need to record ns locations

<AndyS> Not clear that rules will need to refer to node-expr namespace, maybe only use the NS.

<AndyS> +1 to publish node-expr

elianaP: show of hands, who agrees on publishing node-expr wd

<simonstey> +1

elianaP: no objection recorded

RESOLUTION: publish shacl12 Node Expressions as FPWD

AndyS: I can start a rules namespace document

caribou: they will be directly created in the ns repo

<caribou> w3c/ns

caribou: ns documents don't get automatically published when (FP)WD are published
… if we define some new ns in there, and we get the approval for FPWD, then the namespace is approved. ns names aren't expected to change until rec
… we need to get an approval the first time we "reserve" our ns URI
… and afterwards, whatever we maintain there is up to the wg

bergos: branches in our github repo..
… a lot of them are stale
… can we do some housekeeping and delete them?
… merged branches vs closed ones

caribou: once they are merged, they can def. be deleted

bergos: I'll go ahead and close the merged ones and make a list of all branches with closed PRs

next meetings this year

elianaP: who will be around next week?

<simonstey> +1

nicholascar: I guess we can skip the next one

elianaP: the next 2 meetings will be skipped then unless something comes up

RESOLUTION: the next 2 meetings 22.12/29.12 will be skipped

Summary of resolutions

  1. publish shacl12 Node Expressions as FPWD
  2. the next 2 meetings 22.12/29.12 will be skipped
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/nicholascar;/nicholascar:/

Succeeded: s/set to autopublish/published to TR/

All speakers: AndyS, bergos, caribou, DavidHabgood, edmond, elianaP, nicholascar, simonstey

Active on IRC: AndyS, bergos, caribou, DavidHabgood, edmond, elianaP, ieben, mgberg, nicholascar, simonstey, SimonW, YoucTagh