About releases and votes

2018-03-27 Thread Andy Seaborne
Since we have a new PMC member, Chris, I thought I'd put down more detail than usual about releases. There are some changes coming through about discouraging MD5. There are some simplifications we can do about NOTICE and LICENSE files. == The "Release" The "release" is the source-release.zip

Re: Contribution proposal for Jena: support of a datatype for quantity values

2018-03-27 Thread Andy Seaborne
Extending the operators for SPARQL is a new value space VSPACE_QUANTITY. See (comparison): https://github.com/OpenSensingCity/jena-ucum/blob/jena-3.6.0-ucum/jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/sparql/expr/NodeValue.java#L566 and (multiply)

Re: Contribution proposal for Jena: support of a datatype for quantity values

2018-03-27 Thread ajs6f
ajs6f > On Mar 26, 2018, at 5:40 PM, Bruno P. Kinoshita wrote: > > Hi Maxime, > Don't know whether it would be best as part of jena core or in an extension, > but sounds very interesting! Will let others comment on this. > At work, one item in my backlog is to replace

Re: Contribution proposal for Jena: support of a datatype for quantity values

2018-03-27 Thread ajs6f
Bruno raises an interesting question-- would this contribution have any effect (or should it) on jena-spatial? Would it be either necessary or if not, appropriate to integrate there? (I'm particularly interested in this because it might help decide between core and an extension.) ajs6f > On