User:Rcygania2

My name is Richard Cyganiak.

I'm a researcher and developer at DERI, NUI Galway in Ireland. I co-maintain the LOD Cloud diagram. I'm a co-founder of the Linking Open Data community project at W3C. I build software for working with RDF, such as D2RQ, prefix.cc, Neologism, NG4J, Pubby, Sig.ma. I'm a proud member of the Pedantic Web Group.

Links

• Admin: Scribes
• TF-Turtle: Proposals
• TF-Graphs: Use cases, TF-Graphs/RDF-Datasets-Proposal
• TF-JSON: (my triple-based proposal)
• String literal equality: Syntactic sugar, Entailment, rdf:LanguageTaggedLiteral datatype, StringLiterals/AbolishUntaggedPlain (String entailment)
• IRIs: IRIs/RDFConceptsProposal
• XML literals: User:Rcygania2/XML literals, XML Literals
• New Introduction: User:Rcygania2/RDF Concepts Introduction
• Towards a multigraph design: RDF Datasets and Stateful Resources, Yet Another Dataset Proposal, Dataset Operations
• Blank nodes: B-Scopes
• Semantics: RDF-With-Literals-Entailment, Semantics Intro

Position

• See my submission to the RDF Next Steps workshop: Next Steps for RDF: Keep the core and pave the cowpaths
• Incorporate into the standards what we have learned as a community
• Do not jeopardize what works
• This is not the place to promote research
• RDF has failed as a foundation for knowledge representation languages
• RDF is succeeding as a data model for data integration and data management

Expected focus of work in the RDF WG

• Named graphs (as abstract syntax for dealing with context in RDF)
• Turtle (as friendly surface syntax)
• “Weak deprecation” of cruft (reification, rdf:Alt, RDF/XML)
• Relationship of RDF and web architecture

W3C experience

• Member of the RDB2RDF working group. Editor of R2RML: RDB to RDF Mapping Language
• Editor of SWEO Note: Cool URIs for the Semantic Web
• Editor of (draft) SWIG Note: Describing Linked Datasets with the VoID Vocabulary