W3C

– DRAFT –
Dataset Exchange WG

23 July 2026

Attendees

Present
antoine, Arofan, Dan, FranckC, FranckM, Jakub, nicholascar, pchampin, RiccardoAlbertoni, roba, Simon, steveR
Regrets
-
Chair
FranckC
Scribe
Simon

Meeting minutes

Approval of last meeting's minutes (https://www.w3.org/2026/07/16-dxwg-minutes)

<RiccardoAlbertoni> Propose: accept last meeting minutes - https://www.w3.org/2026/07/16-dxwg-minutes

<RiccardoAlbertoni> +1

<annette_g> +1

<roba> +1

<nicholascar> +0

<Simon> +1

<LarsG> +1

<Dan> +1

<steveR> +1

<Arofan> +1

RESOLUTION: accept last meeting minutes - https://www.w3.org/2026/07/16-dxwg-minutes

Task forces and deliverables (continued from previous meeting): TF Profile

<steveR> https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/cf468f73-53d3-4cd8-bb8a-eb534f47bc80/20260723T100000/edit/

nicholascar: planning first draft of profiles and connegp document

nicholascar: will be able to work asynchronously using GitHub

nicholascar: expecting most of the editors to be participating

nicholascar: in telecons

roba: what are motivations for change? What are the important open issues?

nicholascar: SHACL WG has done narrower task, so needs to push up some issues to profiles doc

nicholascar: some profiles roles and vocabulary updates needed

nicholascar: 'profiling' as a concept needs clarification in profiles document , 1-2 paras

nicholascar: i.e., small changes pushed up from SHACL WG

ack: annette_g

annette_g: what about items that are tagged 'note'?

annette_g: if these move to REC then need a vote in this group?

roba: connegp is on REC track, promotion of profiles to RC track is mentioned in charter

<nicholascar> Charter: https://www.w3.org/2026/04/dx-wg-charter.html

<nicholascar> 3.3 Tentative Deliverables

annette_g: thinks that they are not classed as REC

nicholascar: we have interest and people to move to REC as foreseen in charter

roba: profiles roles vocabulary is a 'register' of terms - would be better published as dynamic register rather than static document or file

<Arofan> If we want to be strict according to the wording in the chater, having interst and participants will lead us to "consider" the following actions. Does this still require agreement in the group? (I suspect this will be pro forma...)

<annette_g> The charter says "Depending on the interest and availability of Working Group participants, the Working Group may also consider: " these items

antoine: the registry should be defined as part of the REC then it can be maintained dynamically

roba: are their precendent?

pchampin: not aware of any

<Arofan> I agree with Annette's reading here

annette_g: charter allow for the group to _choose_ to moving notes to REC, which still needs a vote

annette_g: requires a registry - many ways to do this, considering the need for an API then we need detail so this isn't a big mess with multiple implementations

annette_g: early in WG is best time to clarify these issues

roba: don't know of any registry precendents. Yes, would be helpful to formally agree to promote notes to REC

roba: the concerns could be separated in the document, allowing for multiple implementations of registry - should be discussed in the connegp workforce - don't conflate connegp and prof

<nicholascar> The Register Track: https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#registries

RiccardoAlbertoni: more detail on registry options?

pchampin: registry is the way to make REC open ended

pchampin: registry defines what is information that must be submitted for registration of an item

pchampin: in case of extensible vocabulary this allows items to be added later

<roba> like the IANA link relations and media types registers

pchampin: does not need to be maintained by the WG, can be delegated to a third party

pchampin: new items in registry must not change conformance

<Arofan> Annette raised a point of process which was not yet addressed: do we need as a group to agree that the additional items in the carter will be carried forward? Does this require a vote? I am happy with Rob's answer's but the question still seems open to me.

simon: is annette_g asking for a proposal now?

annette_g: not now - wait until we have settled down the group so we can all consider the proposal

FranckC: could annette_g join TF for one meeting to clarify goals?

annette_g: need to make choices about concrete proposal so goals and choices are optimised

tools

Tools: GitHub repositories (see https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1641)

<FranckC> Simon: describes issue w3c/dxwg#1641

<FranckC> Simon: the proposal is to create seperate GitHub repository for each deliverable

<FranckC> ... easy for new documents, harder for existing ones

RiccardoAlbertoni: seems that there is a general consensus to go this direction

RiccardoAlbertoni: DCAT has a long history in GitHub and with some associated Wikis, so will need some care

RiccardoAlbertoni: we can agree in this meeting, and then figure out who is responsible for technical work

FranckC: DCAT is the most complex case

should be easy for VVD and DQV

RiccardoAlbertoni: could DQV history be transferred from earlier repo dwbp?

pchampin: tools work better with one deliverable per repository

<RiccardoAlbertoni> w3c/dwbp

<roba> can we rename, then create a new on with the old name that brings it in as a submodule?

pchampin: current dx repo is dominated with DCAT - perhaps keep existing dxwg repo for DCAT

RiccardoAlbertoni: need to preserve links from published papers

<pchampin> the URLs of issues would still work if we rename the repo (GH would redirect to the new URL)

RiccardoAlbertoni: renaming github repo might break links?

pchampin: links redirect, gh-pages don't

Simon: for gh-pages, just need to leave a stub HTML with a redirect in the header

<roba> no objection - put to vote?

everyone please review w3c/dxwg#1641

RiccardoAlbertoni: note that DCAT will require particular attention

FranckC: plan to vote on the proposal in next meeting

Tools: Wiki (https://www.w3.org/2017/dxwg/wiki/Main_Page)

FranckC: Wiki needs a lot of update. Clarify - we are talking about the W3C Wiki _not_ GitHub artefacts

FranckC: Antoine Isaac will propose how to reorganise Wiki

FranckC: can anyone interested please send Antoine suggestions

AOB

<pchampin> it's been a "short" meeting after all :)

bye

<FranckC> bye

Summary of resolutions

  1. accept last meeting minutes - https://www.w3.org/2026/07/16-dxwg-minutes
Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 248 (Mon Oct 27 20:04:16 2025 UTC).

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No scribenick or scribe found. Guessed: Simon

Maybe present: ack, annette_g

All speakers: ack, annette_g, antoine, FranckC, nicholascar, pchampin, RiccardoAlbertoni, roba, simon

Active on IRC: annette_g, Arofan, Dan, FranckC, FranckM, Jakub, LarsG, nicholascar, pchampin, RiccardoAlbertoni, roba, Simon, steveR