From ca9cf5744e2306b49d436b3d89a5195fdd30c5f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:20:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 01/15] Rename the WG to Linked Data Formats.
No other content has been changed. Just the name.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index ef5deacc..4cdf7e10 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
- JSON-LD Working Group Charter
+ Linked Data Formats Working Group Charter
@@ -72,12 +72,12 @@
-
It will also develop new Recommendation Track deliverables, based on work incubated by the JSON for Linking Data Community Group,
specifying the use of JSON-LD algorithms with similar formats (YAML, CBOR, and more).
-
The Working group is expected to coordinate with the JSON for Linking Data Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the JSON-LD Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
+
The Working group is expected to coordinate with the JSON for Linking Data Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the Linked Data Formats Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
As mentioned in the scope section, the Working group is expected to coordinate with this Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the JSON-LD Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
+
As mentioned in the scope section, the Working group is expected to coordinate with this Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the Linked Data Formats Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
Coordination on named graph indexing and other concerns regarding support for normalization and digital signatures.
@@ -483,10 +483,10 @@
The meetings themselves are not open to public participation, however.
- Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues, actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the JSON-LD Working Group home page.
+ Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues, actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the Linked Data Formats Working Group home page.
- Most JSON-LD Working Group teleconferences will focus on discussion of particular specifications, and will be conducted on an as-needed basis.
+ Most Linked Data Formats Working Group teleconferences will focus on discussion of particular specifications, and will be conducted on an as-needed basis.
This group primarily conducts its technical work on GitHub issues.
From 83c1d623d678a47e064c93ff2b990235a40448fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:50:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 02/15] Rewrite the background section.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index 4cdf7e10..e38a5ccb 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -144,9 +144,26 @@
DRAFT Linked Data Formats Working Group Charter
Motivation and Background
- JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a method of encoding linked data using JSON.
- The encoding is used used mostly for search engine optimization activities but also for applications such as
- biomedical informatics, and representing provenance information.
+ JSON-LD (JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data) is a widely used method of encoding Linked Data using JSON.
+ Use of JSON-LD has grown and expanded over the last decade (since it's first publication as a
+ W3C Recommendation in 2014).
+ JSON-LD remains a popular choice for ecoding SEO-focused
+ structured data in Web pages. JSON-LD has also become a foundational format for social media (ActivityStreams),
+ Internet of Things data (Web of Things Description), Verifiable Credentials, and Software Bill of Materials (SPDX).
+
+
This growth in the applied use of JSON-LD has resulted in community interest in additional expressions of
+ JSON-LD's underlying Linked Data expression into other formats. YAML-LD has been created by the
+ JSON for Linking Data Community Group for easing human
+ authoring and providing a clearer path for using Linked Data applied to popular YAML-based documents such as
+ infrastructure as code, static site front matter, and API documentation formats. Additionally, a need has
+ arised in the Verifiable Credentials space for providing a more compressed expression of JSON-LD, and work on
+ CBOR-LD was begun in the JSON-LD CG.
+
+
+ The hope of this new more inclusively focused Linked Data Formats WG is to meet the demand of the broader
+ JSON-LD community by strengthening the foundational JSON-LD specifications and aligning it with the latest
+ RDF 1.2 specifications, growing the family of Linked Data formats which orbit around the JSON-LD data model,
+ and specify additional processing and context retrieval methods for greater clarity and stability.
From 54036e37251d9e3e91179a015d5118f0bfa32b8e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:56:55 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 03/15] Revert "Rename the WG to Linked Data Formats."
This reverts commit ca9cf5744e2306b49d436b3d89a5195fdd30c5f3.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 16 ++++++++--------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index e38a5ccb..460c0eff 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
- Linked Data Formats Working Group Charter
+ JSON-LD Working Group Charter
@@ -72,12 +72,12 @@
-
It will also develop new Recommendation Track deliverables, based on work incubated by the JSON for Linking Data Community Group,
specifying the use of JSON-LD algorithms with similar formats (YAML, CBOR, and more).
-
The Working group is expected to coordinate with the JSON for Linking Data Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the Linked Data Formats Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
+
The Working group is expected to coordinate with the JSON for Linking Data Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the JSON-LD Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
As mentioned in the scope section, the Working group is expected to coordinate with this Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the Linked Data Formats Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
+
As mentioned in the scope section, the Working group is expected to coordinate with this Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the JSON-LD Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
Coordination on named graph indexing and other concerns regarding support for normalization and digital signatures.
@@ -500,10 +500,10 @@
The meetings themselves are not open to public participation, however.
- Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues, actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the Linked Data Formats Working Group home page.
+ Information about the group (including details about deliverables, issues, actions, status, participants, and meetings) will be available from the JSON-LD Working Group home page.
- Most Linked Data Formats Working Group teleconferences will focus on discussion of particular specifications, and will be conducted on an as-needed basis.
+ Most JSON-LD Working Group teleconferences will focus on discussion of particular specifications, and will be conducted on an as-needed basis.
This group primarily conducts its technical work on GitHub issues.
From ce2329aaa6889a96cafd5c1b937a3d6466147ba9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:57:26 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 04/15] Switch WG name back in intro.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index 460c0eff..c886a470 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -160,10 +160,10 @@
Motivation and Background
CBOR-LD was begun in the JSON-LD CG.
- The hope of this new more inclusively focused Linked Data Formats WG is to meet the demand of the broader
+ The hope of this new more inclusively focused JSON-LD WG is to meet the demand of the broader
JSON-LD community by strengthening the foundational JSON-LD specifications and aligning it with the latest
- RDF 1.2 specifications, growing the family of Linked Data formats which orbit around the JSON-LD data model,
- and specify additional processing and context retrieval methods for greater clarity and stability.
+ RDF 1.2 specifications, growing the family of JSON-LD related formats which orbit around the JSON-LD
+ processing model, and specifing improved context retrieval methods for greater clarity and stability.
Internet of Things data (Web of Things Description), Verifiable Credentials, and Software Bill of Materials (SPDX).
This growth in the applied use of JSON-LD has resulted in community interest in additional expressions of
- JSON-LD's underlying Linked Data expression into other formats. YAML-LD has been created by the
+ JSON-LD's underlying Linked Data structure into other formats. YAML-LD has been created by the
JSON for Linking Data Community Group for easing human
authoring and providing a clearer path for using Linked Data applied to popular YAML-based documents such as
infrastructure as code, static site front matter, and API documentation formats. Additionally, a need has
From d852a331cdb5fb6b7711ee5390688d8f128ebbf7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:53:37 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 06/15] Tweak Scope intro.
Mostly removing the web-scale/web-developer specificity as JSON-LD reaches
well beyond the browser-based Web to bots, IoT, big data, AI, and LLMs.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index a3f82a90..4b9b6f78 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -174,14 +174,14 @@
Scope
with the features introduced by RDF-star
in addition to open Errata and requested features
as noted on the groups Project Management Page.
- These specifications together provide a JSON format for Linked Open Data to interoperate at web-scale, in a method which is familiar to and usable by web-focused software engineers.
+ These specifications together provide a JSON format for Linked Data to interoperate in a method which is familiar to and usable by software engineers.
- It will also develop new Recommendation Track deliverables, based on work incubated by the JSON for Linking Data Community Group,
+ The Working Group will also develop new Recommendation Track deliverables, based on work incubated by the JSON for Linking Data Community Group,
specifying the use of JSON-LD algorithms with similar formats (YAML, CBOR, and more).
-
The Working group is expected to coordinate with the JSON for Linking Data Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the JSON-LD Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
+
The Working Group is expected to coordinate with the JSON for Linking Data Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the JSON-LD Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.
In Scope
From f8ec6c3ec15bdaa78498088d782ad23cee2d644f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 08:56:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 07/15] Remove static list of PM issues.
Also add note about new features referencing the W3C process.
Based on @gkellogg suggestion in https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld-wg-charter/pull/10#issuecomment-3070114842
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 71 +++-----------------------------------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index 4b9b6f78..513744b5 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -185,73 +185,12 @@
Scope
In Scope
-
In addition to Errata and synchronization with the RDF-star Working Group, the following features tracked on the
+
In addition to Errata and synchronization with the RDF-star Working Group, features tracked on the
Project Management Page
- are in-scope for updates to the core JSON-LD specifications:
-
-
-
Additional updates to properly abstract serialization/deserialization based on content type
- (PR w3c/json-ld-api#608).
From 8e11f403a42b861be8d2aeaad861bf00b5b730a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:01:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 08/15] Add version numbers; bump CR dates.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index 513744b5..934c8453 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@
The Working Group will also deliver the following W3C normative specifications:
-
CBOR-LD
+
CBOR-LD 1.0
CBOR is a compact binary data serialization and messaging format. This specification defines CBOR-LD, a CBOR-based format to serialize Linked Data. The encoding is designed to leverage the existing JSON-LD ecosystem, to provide a compact serialization format for those seeking efficient encoding schemes for Linked Data.
@@ -263,16 +263,16 @@
Editor's Draft (2022-12-06), adopted from previous JSON-LD Working Group
-
Expected completion: CR in Q4 2024
+
Expected completion: CR in Q4 2026
-
YAML-LD
+
YAML-LD 1.0
This document defines YAML-LD, a set of conventions built on top of YAML, which outlines how to serialize Linked Data as YAML based on JSON-LD syntax, semantics, and APIs.
Input document:YAML-LD,
Final Community Group Report (2023-12-06), adopted from the JSON for Linking Data Community Group
-
Expected completion: CR in Q4 2024
+
Expected completion: CR in Q4 2026
From b556bbe3075590e6c8b6a07d3fb3819dcb39f917 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:02:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 09/15] Tweak Other Deliverables.
Dropped the multiple languages in JSON proposal.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index 934c8453..7d18b3ec 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -289,8 +289,7 @@
Application profile of JSON-LD to enable efficient streaming parsers.
Test suites and implementation reports for the specifications.
-
Best practices for use and implementation of JSON-LD 1.1.
-
Best practices for supporting multiple languages in JSON, based on JSON-LD value objects
+
Best practices for use and implementation of JSON-LD 1.1 and 1.2.
From 6a0f1499900fb3a11d42ae4de4b4fb0fb85dc966 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:04:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 10/15] Bump timeline dates.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index 7d18b3ec..f9be33ee 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -296,14 +296,14 @@
The work of this Group will the ability to concisely represent and query statements about statements.
From 0f5d94bdce3aa3b772dbefe0466ae0eb96c17f25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Young
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:10:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 12/15] Rename RDF-star WG and update refs.
---
2024/json-ld-wg/index.html | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
index 50eea7b7..1c293280 100644
--- a/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
+++ b/2024/json-ld-wg/index.html
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@
Motivation and Background
Scope
The Working Group will extend the recommendations defining the JSON-LD specifications (i.e., JSON-LD 1.1, JSON-LD 1.1 API, JSON-LD 1.1 Framing)
- with the features introduced by RDF-star
+ with the features introduced by RDF 1.2
in addition to open Errata and requested features
as noted on the groups Project Management Page.
These specifications together provide a JSON format for Linked Data to interoperate in a method which is familiar to and usable by software engineers.
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
Scope
In Scope
-
In addition to Errata and synchronization with the RDF-star Working Group, features tracked on the
+
In addition to Errata and synchronization with the RDF & SPARQL Working Group, features tracked on the
Project Management Page
are in-scope for updates to the core JSON-LD specifications.
As mentioned in the scope section, the Working group is expected to coordinate with this Community Group on consensus-based proposals related to content changes for the JSON-LD Working Group Deliverables. The Chairs of this group may choose to reject proposals that are incompatible with this Charter.