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Submission Request to W3C: Shape Expressions 1.0
Submitted Materials
We, W3C Member(s) , INRIA, Mayo Clinic and SemanticWeb.com,
hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification,
comprising the following document(s) attached hereto:
- Shape Expressions 1.0 Primer
- Shape Expressions 1.0 Definition
which collectively are referred to as "the Submission". We request the
Submission be known as the Shape Expressions Submission.
Abstract
Shape Expressions is an abstract syntax and semantics for defining constrain the properties, types and cardinality of nodes in RDF graphs. This can be itself be represented in RDF, and as such extends the Resource Shapes RDF vocabulary. An isomorphic text syntax provides a terse and intuitive presentation of Shape Expressions.
Intellectual Property Statements
The below statements concerning Copyrights, Trade and Service Marks, and
Patents, have been made by the following people on behalf of themselves and
their affiliated organizations:
- Jyotishman Pathak, AC representative, Mayo Clinic
- Fabien Gandon, AC representative, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
- Michel Dumontier, AC representative, Stanford University
- Richard Cyganiak, AC representative, Insight Centre for Data Analytics (formerly DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway
- Bart van Leeuwen, AC representative, netage.nl
Copyrights
- Each organization, respectively, hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual,
nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any its
copyrights on this contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the
contribution under the W3C
document licenses.
- Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a
W3C Activity, each organization grants a right and license of the same
scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or
incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Each organization further
agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C
shall be solely owned by the W3C.
Patents
- Each organization, respectively, agrees to offer licenses according to
the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section
5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the
Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
Suggested action
The RDF Validation Workshop, held in September 2013, ended with consensus on the need for
- Declarative definition of the structure of a graph for validation and description.
- Extensible to address specialized use cases.
- A mechanism to associate descriptions with data.
We suggest that the Consortium proceeds with the creation of such a Working
Group and uses this Submission and Resource Shapes as a starting point.
Contact
Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed
to: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
Submitted
This 2nd of June, 2014,
- Jyotishman Pathak, AC representative, Mayo Clinic
- Fabien Gandon, AC representative, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)
- Michel Dumontier, AC representative, Stanford University
- Richard Cyganiak, AC representative, Insight Centre for Data Analytics (formerly DERI) at the National University of Ireland, Galway
- Bart van Leeuwen, AC representative, netage.nl