#1283: [wg/rml] RML Working Group

Opened

Sep 24, 2026

This issue was created because the 'horizontal review requested' label was added to § https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/443

This review is requested prior to the Advisory Committee Review.

New charter proposal, reviewers please take note.

Charter Review

Charter

diff from charter template

Expected end of charter refinement phase: mid-September 2026

What kind of charter is this? Check the relevant box / remove irrelevant branches.

New WG

Horizontal Reviews: apply the Github label "Horizontal review requested" to request reviews for accessibility (a11y), internationalization (i18n), privacy, security, and TAG. Also add a "card" for this issue to the Strategy Funnel.

Substantive changes

N/A

Communities suggested for outreach

Known or potential areas of concern

Where would charter proponents like to see issues raised? (this strategy funnel issue, a different github repo, email, ...)

https://github.com/kg-construct/rml-wg-charter

Anything else we should think about as we review?

I was contacted by the chairs of the Knowledge Graph Construction CG, who would like to create a Working Group. The WG is producing a set of specification around RML (RDF Mapping Language), which can be seen as a generalization and an extension of R2RML. In particular, while R2RML works only on relational data, RML can map many other kinds of data to RDF.

RML specs and tools are largely developed in Academia, but is used in many contexts, including in the industry and governmental agencies. A Dagstulh seminar in February, co-organized by the CG chairs, on a related topic, should be the occasion of identifying more interested stakeholders and gauge their interest

Charter facilitator(s)

cc @pchampin

Track conversations at https://tag-github-bot.w3.org/gh/w3ctag/design-reviews/1283