W3C

– DRAFT –
RDF and SPARQL Working Group

13 August 2026

Attendees

Present
AndyS, doerthe, ktk, lisp, niklasl, olaf, ora, pfps, rubensworks, Souri, TallTed, tl
Regrets
enrico, gwt, pchampin, william-vw
Chair
ora
Scribe
olaf:, olaf

Meeting minutes

Approval of minutes from the last two meetings: 1 2

ora: Minutes!

<ora> PROPOSAL: Approve last two weeks' minutes

<pfps> minutes look OK

<pfps> +1

<ktk> +1

<AndyS> +1

<ora> +0.5 (regrets for one call)

<Souri> +1

<doerthe> +0.5

<rubensworks> +0

<olaf> +1

<tl> +1

<niklasl> +0.5 (regrets for one)

<TallTed> +1

RESOLUTION: Approve last two weeks' minutes

Review of open actions, available at 3

ora: Haven't acted on my issues.

Review of open PRs, available at 4

ora: Anything to work on today?

ktk: Should we merge the undefined errors?
… They are from James, who is not here.

ora: defer to next week

AndyS: Is this text to go into every document?

ktk: Yes, that was the idea.

Identifying issues to solve before CR 5

ora: Let's go to the issues next. We have a lot to go through.

<rubensworks> w3c/rdf-tests#366

<gb> PR 366 Add collection point for RDF 1.2 implementation reports (by rubensworks)

rubenswork: I created a PR about a place to collect the implementation reports.
… currently it covers only RDF. We may do the same for SPARQL.
… This is based on the EARL importer from gkellogg
… I didn't change anything (it's written in Ruby). But it seems to work.

ora: What do you need?

rubenswork: Maybe people can look at it.

ktk: Any idea why the job is failing?

rubensworks: I don't know.

ora: Great. Thank you!

AndyS: Where did the reports actually go?

rubensworks: Same way as JSON-LD does it ..
… there is a reports directory
… I added one file as an example

AndyS: Okay, I will have a look.

ora: ktk and I spent some time going through much of the stuff (excluding SPARQL and RDF/XML)
… and proposed a lot of issues for closing.

<AndyS> https://github.com/orgs/w3c/projects/20/views/11

ora: Can we look at them now?

ktk: In general, we were a bit "aggressive" - pessimistic
… close most of the issues unless there is a clear reason not to

<ktk> w3c/rdf-common#18

<gb> Issue 18 multiple `p` elements (by domel) [propose closing] [spec:editorial]

ktk: if anyone has strong feelings, please queue
… Of course, they can be reopened.

<ktk> w3c/rdf-concepts#127

<gb> Issue 127 Check punctuation of all bulleted lists (by TallTed) [propose closing] [spec:editorial]

ktk: No objections to 18 - closed
… Objection to closing 127?

TallTed: PR needed to close this issue (127)

<ktk> w3c/rdf-concepts#270

<gb> Issue 270 why is `^^i18n:` a good idea? (by VladimirAlexiev) [propose closing] [spec:editorial]

ktk: Do you have the energy to create a PR?

TallTed: will try

ktk: Issue 270 was from Graphwise
… no objections to closing it -- closed.

<ktk> w3c/rdf-concepts#281

<gb> Issue 281 where is a discussion of risks inherent in representing triple terms (by lisp) [propose closing]

ktk: Issue 281 from James
… Let's discuss it next week when James is around again.
… The "implement TAG .." issues will be discussed next week when pchampin is back

<ktk> w3c/rdf-n-quads#104

<gb> Issue 104 Make the version declaration an RDF statement (by filip26) [propose closing]

Issue 104 was proposed to close by Domenik

ora: Let's close it.

AndyS: The point was that it breaks parsers.

<ktk> w3c/rdf-n-triples#109

<gb> Issue 109 Erratum: indicate that N-Triples is a syntactic subset of N-Quads (by pchampin) [ms:CR] [propose closing]

ktk: Issue 109 was indirectly by David Booth
… Domenik proposed closing
… closed!

<ktk> w3c/rdf-n-triples#74

<gb> Issue 74 Decide on "period" vs "full stop" (by gkellogg) [propose closing] [spec:editorial]

ktk: Issue 74 seems something we can close.

TallTed: It should be the same name in all documents.

ktk: "full stop" is used only in a table in N-Triples

<AndyS> https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+002E

TallTed: We should be consistent.

ktk: I will take a look across all documents.

<ktk> w3c/rdf-primer#29

<gb> Issue 29 RDF Collections? (by riannella) [Editorial] [propose closing]

ktk: Issue 29 - don't think this will happen unless someone creates PR

niklasl: I don't mind having this on my TODO list. Assign it to me. If I fail, we can close it.

ktk: OK

<ktk> w3c/rdf-primer#21

<gb> Issue 21 Ensure the triple annotation example is useful (by niklasl) [propose closing] [spec:editorial]

ktk: Issue 21, niklasl already agreed to close it
… Closed!

<ktk> w3c/rdf-primer#22

<gb> Issue 22 Black Backgrounds (by riannella) [propose closing] [spec:editorial]

ktk: Issue 22, we saw a bunch of PR related to this issue
… Any others planned?

niklasl: I have plans. Keep the issue open.

<ktk> w3c/rdf-primer#26

<gb> Issue 26 Add list of (all known) RDF serialization formats (by hartig) [propose closing] [spec:enhancement]

ktk: Issue 26 -- ora and I don't see the point
… quite random list
… We think we shouldn't maintain such a list.

<AndyS> https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-concepts/#rdf-documents

AndyS: There is a mention of a list in RDF Concepts
… It is a sample, and was discussed at length.

ktk: We agree to close issue 26

AndyS: Yes, too difficult to list /decide about all the corner cases

<ktk> w3c/rdf-star-wg#144

<gb> Issue 144 [Editorial] capitalization of "SPARQL string", "SPARQL Query string", and "SPARQL Update string" (by TallTed) [documentation] [propose closing]

ktk: Closed.
… Issue 144 - question is whether we do a grep to catch them?

ora: TallTed, it's yours. What do you think?

ktk: It is not easy to 'grep' them

TallTed: Truly editorial; can be pushed. I would not close it though.

<ktk> w3c/rdf-star-wg#146

<gb> Issue 146 [Editorial] Need to improve presentation of, e.g., `"&quot;" (1 double quote)` (by TallTed) [documentation] [propose closing]

ktk: Issue 146 is similar

TallTed: Also this, I think is purely editorial.
… Definitely confusing wherever this comes up.

ktk: Keep it open?

TallTed: Yes

<ktk> w3c/rdf-star-wg#187

<gb> Issue 187 Confirm organisation of implementation reports (by afs) [needs discussion] [propose closing] [ms:CR]

ktk: Issue 187 ? Ah, rubensworks created a PR for it

rubensworks: We can close the issue and continue in the PR

ktk: Closed!

TallTed: Wait! Closing issues before their PR is problematic.

ktk: Fine to reopen it until the PR is merged.

TallTed: There is a "PR exists" label
… which helps tracking these cases.

<ktk> w3c/rdf-star-wg#194

<gb> Issue 194 Remove Macintosh file type code in documents defining document formats (by kasei) [propose closing] [tracking]

ktk: Issue 194 - AndyS added a comment; let's leave it open

<ktk> w3c/rdf-turtle#154

<gb> Issue 154 Description of implicit bnodes in reifying triples is imprecise and duplicated (by rubensworks) [Editorial] [propose closing]

ktk: Issue 154 - Is this still relevant? The PR was merged.

rubensworks: can be closed

ktk: Closed!

<ktk> w3c/rdf-turtle#155

<gb> Issue 155 Last sentence in Reifying Triples seems unnecessary (by rubensworks) [Editorial] [propose closing]

ktk: Issue 155 - PR is not merged yet - remove "proposed closing" label
… We are through the list!

Any Other Business (AOB), time permitting

AndyS: Regarding the mime type registration, I see that many of the entries are random
… There needs to be person details.

<AndyS> https://www.w3.org/TR/sparql12-query/#mediaType

AndyS: Maybe we wait for pchampin

<AndyS> See "Person & email address to contact for further information:"

AndyS: In this section, there is an item "Person..."

TallTed: From other groups, it is still necessary. Using the group as a contact is perfectly valid.

AndyS: Example?

TallTed: Have to find one.

ora: Anyone else has other business?
… We got a lot of stuff done. Good!

Summary of resolutions

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

Diagnostics

Succeeded: s/unexpected errors/undefined errors

Succeeded: s/rubenswork:/rubensworks:

Succeeded: s/spend some time/spent some time/

Succeeded: s/Any others planed?/Any others planned?/

Succeeded: s/where ever/wherever/

Maybe present: rubenswork

All speakers: AndyS, ktk, niklasl, ora, rubenswork, rubensworks, TallTed

Active on IRC: AndyS, doerthe, ktk, lisp, niklasl, olaf, ora, pfps, rubensworks, Souri, TallTed, tl