Jesse Wright jeswr

rdfjs/N3.js — Triage board (2026-07-01)

Assembled read-only for @jeswr. Nothing has been posted, labelled, closed, or pushed — every proposed comment below waits for a ticked checkbox. Supporting memos: repo health, TypeScript migration.

1. State of the repo

N3.js is in good release shape — semantic-release from main works, runtime dependencies are clean, and the 100% coverage gate plus the 40-job W3C spec matrix are strong quality gates — but the one thing actively hurting day-to-day operation is spec-test flakiness (#609), a diagnosed rdf-test-suite cache race that strands dependabot automerge (#610) and can silently skip releases. The backlog itself is healthier than it looks: 18 small fixes have verified root causes (several with

title: "Avoiding Request-Content Re-Transmission for Cached HTTP QUERY" abbrev: "QUERY Digest Caching" docname: draft-wright-httpbis-query-digest-caching-00 category: exp updates: 10008 ipr: trust200902 area: "Web and Internet Transport" workgroup: "HTTP" keyword: [QUERY, cache, digest]

Is `create` a Good Upstream Candidate?

Yes, strongly. create fills a genuine gap in the ODRL vocabulary. ODRL has read, modify, and delete — three of the four CRUD operations — but no create. This is because ODRL was designed for digital rights over existing content (music, video, documents). The concept of "create a new resource inside a container" is a web/REST pattern that ODRL's original domain didn't need.

As ODRL is increasingly applied to web resource management (LWS, Solid, data spaces), the absence of create becomes a real interoperability problem — every profile in this space has to independently invent the same term. Making it a Common Vocabulary term benefits the whole ecosystem.

The definition would be straightforward:

Included in: odrl:use (like read, modify, delete)
Semantics: Create a new resource, typically within a collection or container
Distinct from: modify (which operates on an existing resource)

This file contains notes for a beginner Introduction to Solid Workshop. This should be accompanied with a Slide Deck for the presentation.

About Solid

About the Solid Project

Decentralized web
Project started by Sir Tim Berners-Lee; inventor of the World Wide Web

education

Courses which involve Solid https://rubenverborgh.github.io/WebFundamentals/semantic-web/.

Other existing education materials include:

Short article intros to Solid:

https://www.ateam-oracle.com/post/an-introduction-to-solid

	# SHACL Versioning Pattern for the Solid Ecosystem

	## Context & Problem Statement

	The Solid SHACL Shapes Catalogue (`solid/shapes`) already establishes that published shapes are immutable contracts — once merged, their validation rules must not be modified. Evolution happens through new shapes, not mutation of existing ones.

	This is a strong foundation, but it doesn't yet address several questions that become critical as the catalogue grows:

	- How do consumers know which shape is the "current" version of a concept?
	- How do apps discover that a shape they depend on has a successor?

	/* Style for design issues documents */

	body {
	font-family: opensans, sans-serif; /* serif */
	background-color: white; /* was for decades #f8fff8 */
	line-height: 1.2em;
	color: black;
	margin: 2em 8% 2em 10%; /* T R B L */
	}

	With data_0.n3s
	```
	@prefix : <https://example.org/ns#> .
	@prefix log: <http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/log#> .

	:ABC a :DepartmentPreference .
	:ABC a :ResearcherPreference .

	(_:WHAT) log:onNegativeSurface {
	_:WHAT a :DepartmentPreference .

	@prefix dct: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
	@prefix dex: <https://w3id.org/dpv/examples#> .
	@prefix dpv: <https://w3id.org/dpv#> .
	@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
	@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
	@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
	@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
	@prefix svpr: <https://specialprivacy.ercim.eu/vocabs/processing#> .
	@prefix sw: <http://www.w3.org/2003/06/sw-vocab-status/ns#> .
	@prefix vann: <http://purl.org/vocab/vann/> .