- From: Irene Polikoff <irene@topquadrant.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:35:43 -0400
- To: James Hudson <jameshudson3010@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-shacl@w3.org
- Message-Id: <3B4E919C-679C-485A-B233-78CFEBD0CB99@topquadrant.com>
Hello James, SHACL validates RDF. It does not validate text serializations of RDF to make sure that a serialized document/file itself is a syntactically valid sterilization of RDF. So, I would think that first you'd need to have a document that is a valid serialization of RDF i.e., it can be successfully parsed and de-serialized. Then, you could use SHACL to ensure that RDF data corresponds to the SHACL shapes that describe it. I am using “RDF data” loosely, meaning any set of RDF triples, whether it is data or schema does not matter. By schema I mean the model of the data - classes, properties, allowed values for properties. > On Mar 26, 2020, at 1:33 PM, James Hudson <jameshudson3010@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > Being rather new to the linked data world, I am at the point where I need to work out the best methods for validating schema's and the role that SHACL may or may not be able to play. > > Since it is easier to discuss something real, I have created a sample schema in the json-ld format and have made it available here: > > https://gist.github.com/James-Hudson3010/7deec4df32aa6b97509aeb490f1edf9b <https://gist.github.com/James-Hudson3010/7deec4df32aa6b97509aeb490f1edf9b> > > It can be entered into the json-ld playground and visualized without error. > > What I mean by validation of the schema, is that I would like to make sure it is valid json-ld document. I have not typed "@Ib" instead of "@id". That there is a "@id" key for every object. Additionally, that when I have declared something as a subclass, that the superclass exists and there are no typos in the superclass name. > > Perhaps someone has already been working on to playing with shape files for json-ld schema's. > > Perhaps I am ascribing capabilities to SHACL that it does not have. > > Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated. > > Additionally, for completeness, I have created an instance based on this schema and that can be found here: > > https://gist.github.com/James-Hudson3010/227ffb77b853a29556be5b5c3a67c309 <https://gist.github.com/James-Hudson3010/227ffb77b853a29556be5b5c3a67c309> > > Regards, > James
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