{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/json-ld/normalization/issues/2","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/json-ld/normalization/issues/2/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/json-ld/normalization/issues/2/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/json-ld/normalization/issues/2/events","html_url":"https://github.com/json-ld/normalization/issues/2","id":81090106,"number":2,"title":"Suggested renaming of RDF canonicalization spec","user":{"login":"gkellogg","id":46296,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46296?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg","html_url":"https://github.com/gkellogg","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":4,"created_at":"2015-05-26T18:54:24Z","updated_at":"2015-07-07T00:09:44Z","closed_at":null,"body":"From David Booth:\r\n\r\n> At present the draft at http://json-ld.github.io/normalization/spec/index.html usually uses the term \"normalization\" instead of \"canonicalization\", particularly in the title.  I think it would be clearer if we changed the spec throughout to use the term \"canonicalization\" instead, because \"canonicalization\" is more specific and more commonly used for this concept.\r\n\r\n> As a data point, the wikipedia entry for \"normalization\" lists *21* different senses of the term: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalization In contrast, the wikipedia entry for \"canonicalization\" has only one -- the one we want: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonicalization\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/json-ld/normalization/issues/comments/119032169","html_url":"https://github.com/json-ld/normalization/issues/2#issuecomment-119032169","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/json-ld/normalization/issues/2","id":119032169,"user":{"login":"gkellogg","id":46296,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/46296?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg","html_url":"https://github.com/gkellogg","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gkellogg/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-07-07T00:09:44Z","updated_at":"2015-07-07T00:09:44Z","body":"The spec describes a type of RDF Dataset (`normalized dataset`) for which blank node identifiers are stable (although wording may not correctly capture that at present). So, in that sense, Normalization may be a better term. Part of the reason for this is that there may be different canonical forms, for example one based on N-Quads and another based on JSON-LD, but these concepts may not survive further scrutiny.\r\n\r\nFor the purposes of signatures, it is the canonicalized N-Quad form which is the most important; but, for RDF diff, a dataset form may be more useful."}}