W3C

– DRAFT –
RDF-star WG meeting

05 February 2026

Attendees

Present
AndyS, doerthe, draggett, enrico, gtw, ktk, lisp, niklasl, pchampin, pfps, Souri, TallTed, tl
Regrets
fsasaki, j22, olaf, ora
Chair
ktk
Scribe
tl

Meeting minutes

ktk: congrats Andy to release of new Jena 6 version

Approval of last week’s minutes: 1

<ktk> PROPOSAL: Approve last week's minutes

<Souri> +1

<niklasl> +1

<tl> +1

<gtw> +1

<lisp> +1

<TallTed> +1

<AndyS> +1

<ktk> +1

<enrico> +1

<doerthe> +1

RESOLUTION: Approve last week's minutes

Horizontal Reviews Tracking 2 3 4

pchampin: feedback from internationalization on RDF concepts and base direction
… made PR which wasn't considered satisfactory, joint meeting proposed, maybe not necessary, will propose further changes to PR

<ktk> 1?

ktk: didn't get back to security group, so that's still on the queue
… any other updates?

<pchampin> my PR for i18n: w3c/rdf-concepts#265

<gb> Pull Request 265 improve discussion on text direction - fix #262 (by pchampin) [needs discussion]

Review of open actions, available at 5

ktk: without Ora we probably have to skip that

niklas: no progress to report from my side

Identifying issues to solve before CR 6

ktk: update on editor notes. extracted all participants from WG meeting logs, but not complete yet

(shows list in screen sharing)

tl: some people are missing although they always present+

ktk: ok, needs more work
… expect about 20 people. we don't want to list people that never participated in WG meetings

pchampin: scribe bot sometimes lists "maybe present" for people that said something but didn't "present+"

tallted: may also try "active on IRC"

w3c/rdf-star-wg#186

ktk: any news on implementation reports?
… where will they be added?

AndyS: we haven't got to the stage where we can ask for them formally

ktk: right, that would be after CR is published

<gb> Issue 186 Tracking implementation reports (by afs) [ms:CR]

AndyS: no progress on semantics tests. waiting for PR on semantics to come back. previous commit had some problems. not sure what's going on there

ktk: who could push this forward?

<enrico> I can try - I have no clue but will try

<gb> Pull Request 279 RDF 1.2: Restore missing semantics test files (by erdemonal)

ktk: if anybody else has an idea, please contribute

<pchampin> I will try to include the semantics test suite in the tests of my library

ktk: any further documents that we can submit?

<enrico> I started writing the Group Note “RDF 1.2 Triple Terms and Reification explained”. The intro is already available here for comments: https://franconi.github.io/ttr-note/

<AndyS> s/Mote/Note/

pchampin: n-triples media type parameters, versions
… apart from that we're pretty close

ktk: will ask jerven about RDF/XML

enrico: took a couple of weeks to try writing an introduction to reification
… will now tackle the parts connected to RDF

<tl> s/introduction to reification /independent of RDF

Review of open actions, available at 5

<tl> s/independent of RDF/introduction to reification independent of RDF

Any Other Business (AOB), time permitting

ktk: maybe anything we can close?

<enrico> Link to the Linkedin discussion: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/martynasjusevicius_rdf-star-feels-like-a-red-herring-it-feels-activity-7419342188393730048-ae-A?rcm=ACoAAAApL1sBd715Qu0amToMfeKW41K2Ge5abBM

ktk: dominique proposed closing this a week ago, we'll wait another week

AndyS: about HTML PRs, there are problems but not my area of expertise

niklasl: in RDF Concepts we "hot-link" RDF commons to avoid [some linking]
… there are issues with dark mode in ReSpec which haven't been addressed in ReSpec.
… fixes are available, and could be integrated with "hot linking" fixes into all our repositories
… and feedback on if should we do that?
… if not i interpret that as approval
… would just add absolute links to RDF commons
… intricate stuff that I don't want to get into in detail here
… documents are still free to offer dark mode or not, but would prevent documents switching to dark mode although not selected by the reader

pchampin: this is an editorial change that we can make post-PR
… plus 1 to move everything to hard links, but let's not make this a blocker

niklasl: but make it soon
… have to think about what happens when ReSpec tackles the issue

ktk: which documents have dark mode?

niklasl: concepts
… activated button down on the left corner

ktk: not bad

pchampin: seems like RDF 1.2 semantics test suite doesn't import tests from RDF 1.1.
… just looking at the manifest (unlike Turtle, etc Semantics doesn't include older tests)
… we should double check

ktk: editors please check

enrico: will do

<pchampin> looking at it very quickly, it seems that the rdf12/rdf-semantics manifest contains mostly tests about triple terms, so it probably *should* import the old manifest

<pchampin> and the json datatype

<ktk> s/Mote/Note/

<ktk> s/althought/although/

Summary of resolutions

  1. Approve last week's minutes
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

Diagnostics

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Succeeded: s/Mote/Note/

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Failed: s/introduction to reification /independent of RDF

Failed: s/independent of RDF/introduction to reification independent of RDF

Succeeded: s/eerything/everything

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Maybe present: niklas

All speakers: AndyS, enrico, ktk, niklas, niklasl, pchampin, tallted, tl

Active on IRC: AndyS, doerthe, draggett, enrico, gtw, ktk, lisp, niklasl, pchampin, pfps, Souri, TallTed, tl