W3C

– DRAFT –
RDF & SPARQL WG telecon

12 February 2026

Attendees

Present
AndyS, Dominik_T, draggett, gtw, j, j22, ktk, lisp, niklasl, olaf, pfps, Souri, TallTed, tl, Tpt
Regrets
AZ, fsasaki, pchampin
Chair
ktk
Scribe
draggett

Meeting minutes

Approval of last week’s minutes: 1

<pfps> minutes look acceptable to me

<ktk> PROPOSAL: Approve last week's minutes

<pfps> +1

<niklasl> +1

<TallTed> +1

<Dominik_T> +0 (absent)

<ktk> +1

<lisp> +1

<j22> +0 (absent)

<olaf> +0 (absent)

<AndyS> +1

<tl> +0 (i wrote them)

<gtw> +1

<Tpt> +1

<Souri> +1

RESOLUTION: Approve last week's minutes

Updates from the SPARQL TF

Anyone able to report on that?

AndyS: not much to report

james: I volunteered to work on SPARQL Protocol tests and will bring this up next Friday

adrian: what's under consideration for the SPARQL TF?

AndyS: the backlog is quite long

Review of open actions, available at 2

Pierre-Antoine is away this week.

Identifying issues to solve before CR 3

Adrian: are we close to being able to request horizontal review?

Jerven: we still need to fix on the syntax

should I push this forward, some guidance would be handy

niklasl: we need to work though the pros and cons ...

<j22> The issue is w3c/rdf-xml#80

<gb> Issue 80 rdf:annotation and rdf:annotationNodeID maybe confused by pre rdf/xml 1.2 parsers (by JervenBolleman)

<j22> Yes rdf/xml needs a bit more time

Adrian: I have a much more complete list ...

<j22> Yes, even if 5 minutes chat on rdf/xml would be appreciated

It is a long list of people!

<lisp> why does enrico appear with presence count=2

Adrian: I will clean up and remove duplicates

pfps: I am happy to help, but am unsure what to do

<pfps> so I would appreciate some help

AndyS: there's an issue on RDF semantics

<AndyS> w3c/rdf-semantics#183

<gb> Issue 183 Semantics tests : open issues (by afs) [ms:CR]

pfps: so there's 5 issues, but I am not sure where these should go

I asked for advice

AndyS: Greg replied

pfps: I will scream for help if I get stuck

Andy: main challenge is whether tests were correctly remove as being incorrect

pfps: so you're suggesting someone checks the semantic tests

AndyS: we only need to worryabout the RDF 1.2 tests

<niklasl> This one is new w3c/rdf-tests#288 (3 hours old)

<gb> Issue 288 Reification triple appears unexpectedly in results for SPARQL 1.2 reification queries: eval-triple-terms basic-2, basic-3 tests (by desislava-hristova-ontotext)

<AndyS> w3c/rdf-turtle#124

<gb> Issue 124 Proposal: Support trailing commas, not just trailing semicolons (by trwnh)

AndyS: an issue on Turtle

It is very difficult to change syntax on the Web as people will start using whatever is proposed

<Dominik_T> +1

TallTed: it would make mine and many other people's lives easier if Turtle allowed trailing commas

niklasl: when would it be possible to every do this? A new syntax?
… dependent on people updating their libraries quickly

TallTed: can we force a switch from 1.1. to 2.0?

niklasl: small changes may be acceptable as part of a major new version

AndyS: should people put the version on the first line?
… better to add backward compatible changes

AndyS: another issue is adding underscores and numbers, but where do you draw the line?

<niklasl> Commonly used for 1_000_0000 etc.

<niklasl> Supported even in *modern* C, IIRC

James: breaking changes should have major benefits, so I would not be inclined to support this

Souri: I agree with that

<niklasl> Fair point.

<niklasl> +1 to souri; I'm actually -0.9 on adding ^ (inverse)

<niklasl> Though _at times_ I really miss it.

<Dominik_T> +1 to souri too

TallTed: this change would make it easier for human authoring, but I can see the arguments against it, and consider them to be stronger

<niklasl> ( I've even used SPARQL constructs as "data with macros" :P (cf. TARQL) )

AndyS: it may be a modern convention, but it would be very difficult to adopt on the web

<lisp> +1

<niklasl> +1

AndyS: we would need to bundle a lot of changes with a major version number increment

Adrian: anyone know who submitted the issue?

AndyS: no

Any Other Business (AOB), time permitting

any other business? [no]

end of meeting

<niklasl> Here's that old Grit design I mentioned: https://github.com/oort/oort/blob/wiki/Grit.md

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

Maybe present: adrian, Andy, james, Jerven

All speakers: adrian, Andy, AndyS, james, Jerven, niklasl, pfps, Souri, TallTed

Active on IRC: AndyS, Dominik_T, draggett, gtw, j22, ktk, lisp, niklasl, olaf, pfps, Souri, TallTed, tl, Tpt