Proposed Group: Bridging GraphQL and RDF Community Group

The Bridging GraphQL and RDF Community Group has been proposed by Ruben Taelman:

The aim of this group is to explore how GraphQL and RDF can be combined, and to what respect they can benefit each other.

This group explores possible combinations of GraphQL and RDF. We identify and compare existing approaches that bridge these worlds, collect use cases and requirements for such approaches, and characterize corresponding application areas. This will produce deliverables that may serve as input for one or more possible future standardization efforts.

Examples of application areas combining GraphQL and RDF are:
– Read/Write Access (CRUD) to and from RDF data via GraphQL queries and/or interfaces
– Validation of RDF graphs using GraphQL schemas
– Mapping between GraphQL and RDF-based shape languages

This group aims to produce the following deliverables:
– An overview of all known approaches that combine GraphQL and RDF. This overview will include a brief description of each approach, the company/organization that has developed it, and links to the corresponding documentation.
– An analysis of all known approaches that combine GraphQL and RDF. This analysis will include a categorization across one or more facets that will be identified.
– A final report on suggestions/possibilities for standardization.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team