use "SHACL-C" or "SHACLC"?

[VladimirAlexiev]

• I've been writing "SHACLC" but that sometimes can be confused with "SHACL".
• @jeswr writes "SHACL-C".
• shaclc https://github.com/search?q=shaclc&type=repositories finds 5 repos but shacl-c doesn't find relevant repos (it finds things related to SHACL)

@HolgerKnublauch and @jeswr what do you think?

[jeswr]

No strong opinions on my side; leaning slightly towards SHACL-C for readability as you say, but some points supporting SHALCLC are:

• ShEx Compact Syntax uses ShExC
• The file extension is .shc / .shalclc and the mediatype is already text/shaclc not text/shacl-c

[TallTed]

I strongly prefer and advise selection of SHACL-C

• it distinguishes the modifying C from the SHACL it modifies.

• IANA-registered media types can be changed.

• pronunciation is more obviously suggested

  spelling	reads as	syllables	notes
  SHACL	/SHAK-uhl/	2	base
  SHACLC	/SHAK-uhlk/	2	easily mis-heard as SHACL
  SHACL-C	/SHAK-uhl-see/	3	helped by hyphen
  ShEx	/sheks/	1	base
  ShExC	/shek-see/	2	helped by Pascal case
  ShEx-C	/shek-see/	2	helped by hyphen

[afs]

Are there going to other SHACL* names? A consistent pattern is best.

I don't recall seeing alternatives to SHACL-AF and SHACL-UI. Running those together would not look great.

SHACL-C

[VladimirAlexiev]

@nicholascar can we vote this at the next WG meeting?

[jeswr]

@nicholascar @VladimirAlexiev was this voted upon?

[TallTed]

Recently, I've noticed a number of uses of SHACL-CS which I think is also meant to mean SHACL Compact Syntax. I think it makes more sense than either SHACL-C or SHACLC. Of the latter two, I still prefer the dashed form.