W3C

– DRAFT –
Data Shapes WG

17 August 2026

Attendees

Present
ajnelson-nist, AndyS, bergos, caribou, Daniel7, DavidHabgood, edmond, elianaP, HolgerK, ieben, labra, mgberg, nicholascar, Oggy, Robert, simonstey, TallTed, YoucTagh
Regrets
-
Chair
elianaP
Scribe
nicholascar

Meeting minutes

Task Force Reports

AndyS: I've added SPARQL RL points to the agenda

HolgerK: all remaining items for SHACL-SPARQL are in the doc

HolgerK: no Core or Node Exp updates other than SPARQL Functions on Node Exp

nicholascar: vocab formulated based on PROV structures, next is Profiling with SHACL

ajnelson-nist: community resource management around SHACL profiling needed now

AndyS: Rules - PRs have been going in and a Media Type has been selected: application/sparql-rl

AndyS: some security concerns have been addressed

AndyS: document seems to now be ReSpec compliant, for now!

AndyS: a PR was submitted to deal with Blank Node issues, testas added, RDF syntax removed

<AndyS> w3c/data-shapes#1127

AndyS: Issue above from Oggy relating Rules & constraints, submitted as a journal article

AndyS: ready for Wide Review soon, after name confirmation

elianaP: We empowered Rules TF to ask RDF/SPARQL WG about SPARQL RL as a name for Rules

AndyS: similar discussion in RDF WG about Rules name options as here

AndyS: some W3C staff happy - Pierre-Antoine

<AndyS> PROPOSED: Use the short name "sparql-rl", with versioned form "sparql12-rl", for SPARQL-RL.

<AndyS> +1

<ajnelson-nist> +1

<nicholascar> +1

<DavidHabgood> +1

<edmond> +1

<mgberg> +1

<caribou> 0

<TallTed> +1

<Robert> +1

<HolgerK> +1

<simonstey> -0.9

<elianaP> +1

<Oggy> +1

<bergos> +1

<labra> +1

<ieben> +1

<Daniel7> 0

RESOLUTION: Use the short name "sparql-rl", with versioned form "sparql12-rl", for SPARQL-RL.

AndyS & caribou discussed name change implementation issues

HolgerK: we discussed previously follow-on changes related to Rules. The SHACL-SPARQL chapter on Rules is proposed to become its own document. Relevant for the long-term

caribou advises us to vote on the name only later, once the content is in place

PROPOSED: Move the Rules section from SHACL-SPARQL into a new document

<nicholascar> +1

<simonstey> +1

<caribou> +1

<elianaP> +1

<HolgerK> +1

<ieben> +1

<edmond> +1

<Daniel7> +1

<DavidHabgood> +1

<mgberg> +1

<YoucTagh> +1

<Robert> +1

<TallTed> +1

<bergos> +1

<labra> +1

<AndyS> +1

<Oggy> +1

<ajnelson-nist> +1

RESOLUTION: Move the Rules section from SHACL-SPARQL into a new document

<caribou> name of the directory in GH repo can be different from the published shortname

<caribou> anything will do

HolgerK & AndyS discussed GitHub actions for name changes and new docs

SHACL UI Task Force

edmond: two meetings in the last week, rather than the usual 1 due to discussing new feature raising
… sh:order semantics discussed and another small one. 8 live PRs - lots of work- content aiming to be complete by end of month
… SHACL UI Profiling is the most relevant work and may need WG or Profiling TF input

ieben: UI Profiling work early draft, to be discussed in TF meeting tmorrow

elianaP: no other points of agenda!

Thanks to my assistant scribes

Summary of resolutions

  1. Use the short name "sparql-rl", with versioned form "sparql12-rl", for SPARQL-RL.
  2. Move the Rules section from SHACL-SPARQL into a new document
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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All speakers: ajnelson-nist, AndyS, edmond, elianaP, HolgerK, ieben, nicholascar

Active on IRC: ajnelson-nist, AndyS, bergos, caribou, Daniel7, DavidHabgood, edmond, elianaP, HolgerK, ieben, labra, mgberg, nicholascar, Oggy, Robert, simonstey, TallTed, YoucTagh