Dear Commons community,
I'd like to start a discussion about incubating a new commons component
we have been developing in the last weeks at github: commons-rdf [1].
RDF (Resource Description Framework [2]) is a W3C framework for
representing information in the Web. The core structure of the abstract
syntax is a set of triples, each consisting of a subject, a predicate
and an object. A set of such triples is called an RDF graph. An RDF
graph can be visualized as a node and directed-arc diagram, in which
each triple is represented as a node-arc-node link. RDF abstract syntax
can be serialized using different formats (XML, JSON, Turtle, etc.).
In the Java world there has been historically an incompatibility issue
between the two major RDF toolkits: Apache Jena and OpenRDF Sesame.
Commons RDF takes an approach to interoperability that is completely
different from what has been done so far. This is a library that does
not attempt to be a generic API wrapping for these libraries, but
provide a set of interfaces for the RDF 1.1 concepts that can be used to
expose cores concepts using common Java interfaces. In the initial phase
Commons RDF is focused on a subset of the core concepts defined by RDF
1.1 (URI/IRI, Blank Node, Literal, Triple, and Graph). In particular,
Commons RDF aims to provide a type-safe, non-general API that covers RDF
1.1. In a future other aspects around RDF (datasets, query, etc.) may be
also included.
The project counts in ASF commiters of related project (Jena, Marmotta,
Any23) as well of developers of OpenRDF Sesame. At this stage we already
have a very initial version that implementations (Jena and Sesame) could
start to play around to validate and provide early feedback. But for
that we should do it properly and avoid confusion and potential
trademark issues with the naming we're already using (both groupId and
namespace). Therefore we'd like to ask how to proceed further to include
the new component in the Commons sandbox.
For the moment all the work has been completely organized based on git
workflow (new features or design proposals as PRs to be discussed, etc).
It not only allows us to work together, but also helps to get
contributions from early users; so we can say the model is quite agile
and successful. Therefore keep using git is a very important requirement
for us. I saw that all commons-* use svn, so is there any way to us the
ASF git infrastructure for incubating this new component?
All feedback will be appreciated.
Kind regards,
[1] https://github.com/wikier/commons-rdf
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf11-concepts/
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Sergio Fernández
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