gist Development Team Meeting 2023.07.27

Agenda and Notes

• Review action items from previous meetings
  None.

• Discussion topics

  • Meeting format changes
  • Patch release 12.0.1 - Target July 28
  • Achieving DL compliance: add stub definitions for SHACL and SKOS terms: Issue #934
    • SHACL properties are defined as rdf:Property, which puts us out of DL, so we would have to remove the SHACL terms.
    • Rebecca: Propose adding SKOS stubs and removing SHACL terms
    • Michael: If they don't affect inferencing, why is this a sticking point?
    • Mark: If we want to claim OWL DL compliance, we should be completely compliant. It's possible that some tools will balk on non-DL features even if we haven't seen it so far.
    • Boris: Remove all SHACL into an ontology adjacent file for validation. Why not import SKOS?
    • Mark: If we import, then we open the gate to users mixing gist and SKOS terms - such as gist:Category and skos:Concept.
    • Jamie: Likes to declare namespace and prefix, but won't vote against removal because many ontologists want to stay in DL. There might be something in gistComputing or a W3 ontology.
    • Boris: Put prefix declarations into another ontology, those who want them can load them with the understanding that they will not be DL compliant.
    • Michael: OK to take them out as long as information is captured somewhere, either in an annotation or in a separate ontology file.
    • Steven: Why use SKOS annotations rather than RDFS?
      • Mark/Rebecca: More fine-grained than rdfs:label and rdfs:comment.
    • Votes:
      • Add SKOS stubs: Carries 11 - 0
      • Remove SHACL from gist: Carries 11 - 1
      • Add prefix declarations to another file: Carries 11 - 0

• Working group status updates
  None.

Pull Requests Reviewed

None.

Issues Reviewed

• Issue #809: occupiesGeographically and occupiesGeographicallyPermanently (continued from previous meeting)

New Action Items

None.

Next Meeting

Thursday, August 10, 2023, 9:00am MT

• Issues to review:
  • A series of pre-commit hook issues: #838, #848, #890, #891, #906, #932
  • Issues relating to gist:isCharacterizedAs: #820 (remove it), #677 (remove domain)