Re: on entailment

On 09/26/2016 12:12 AM, Holger Knublauch wrote:
> 
> 
> On 26/09/2016 16:31, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> "the property sh:entailment can be used to instruct a SHACL Full processor
>> to ensure that a given entailment is activated on the data graph."
>>
>> Can SHACL Core processors "activate" entailment?
> 
> I have removed the term "Full" from this section.
> 
> https://github.com/w3c/data-shapes/commit/ebeb18f61eea4bf3164ee183ca166a70a2f5cfce
> 
> 
> Indeed there could be implementations of less than SHACL Full that still
> provide entailment support. However, the sh:entailment property lies outside
> of SHACL, and this is clarified by the position of this paragraph in the Part
> II of the spec.

That works.

>>
>> "In addition to shape definitions, the shapes graph may contain additional
>> information for the SHACL processor such as entailment directives."
>>
>> "If an entailment regime is provided in the data graph which is not
>> supported by the SHACL Full processor, the validation must produce a
>> failure."
>>
>> Where can the entailment directive/regime be?
> 
> I assume you mean what the subject of sh:entailment is? We have left this
> undefined, i.e. it can be attached to any subject. A typical design pattern
> would be to place it into an owl:Ontology node but since the shapes graph may
> contain any number of them (owl:imported) we didn't want to open yet another
> topic that may lead to controversial discussions

The first quote above says that the entailment directive/regime is in the
shapes graph.  The second quote says that if an unsupported entailment
directive/regime is in the data graph then something is wrong.  This doesn't
make sense.

> Holger

Peter F. Patel-Schneider
Nuance Communications

Received on Monday, 26 September 2016 15:50:46 UTC