Re: Validating Schemas

Hello,

Yes, I understand that. A json-ld document is an alternate representation
of RDF.

Regards,
James
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 2:35 PM Irene Polikoff <irene@topquadrant.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
> 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
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>
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