Re: Question on SHACL resources

Hi Holger and everyone else,

> A general Slack or Gitter channel would be cool if anyone here is willing to set this up?
> In general, yes we do see a lot of uptake of SHACL too, but much more "community" should arise. We at TopQuadrant can only do so much alone...

As the developer and maintainer of PySHACL, I'd like to help out to create more community around SHACL, and can help to set up and administer a Slack or Gitter account.

Several other opensource and software development communities I'm involved with have moved away from Slack and Gitter to using Discord<https://discord.com/> for community engagement.
It might be a "flavour of the month" kind of situation, however Slack requires a new sign up for every group you join, and Gitter tends to be tied to a particular GitHub repository.
Happy to put it to vote, let those interested decide which platform they'd prefer.

Ashley Sommer
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From: Holger Knublauch <holger@topquadrant.com>
Sent: Tuesday, 16 November 2021 1:05 PM
To: public-shacl@w3.org <public-shacl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Question on SHACL resources


On 2021-11-13 9:10 pm, Sasaki, Felix wrote:

Hi all,



I see more and more industry interest in SHACL. To foster adoption, I am wondering where to find resources, e.g.:



  *   SHACL shapes for widely used standard vocabularies e.g. mentioned at https://lov.linkeddata.es/dataset/lov

Which of those would you like to see covered in particular?

I notice that the Dublin Core vocabs are rather vague and consist mostly of properties only, making them hard to capture as SHACL. We do have a reasonably complete coverage of SKOS and SKOS-XL in our product workspace, and many other SHACL ontologies in production. But as most users of this technology, these versions are not published on regular "Linked Data" URLs. In our practice as vendor we are aware of many projects that use SHACL, yet they typically remain in private ontologies, for dedicated enterprise-specific tasks.

A notable exception is https://datashapes.org/schema which is a SHACL copy of schema.org

It would be a great initiative to start pulling such vocabularies together into a consistent publicly maintained repo, but such a project would need a dedicated leader. We have converters from OWL/RDFS to SHACL that may help quickly populate such a repo.

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  *   SHACL use cases with example shapes (the SHACL spec has a lot of examples, but these are grouped by feature – it is sometimes hard to find the right feature for a given need)

There is space for a SHACL book and more tutorials, for sure. We did publish some at https://www.topquadrant.com/technology/shacl/

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  *   Various types of tooling, esp. editors

TopBraid EDG covers SHACL, but that's a commercial tool.

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This list is very helpful to ask technical questions about SHACL. Where should I go to find “the community” that could help to gather (and extend) information as above?

This mailing list here is quite OK I think. As usual, much discussion also happens on other channels such as Twitter. A general Slack or Gitter channel would be cool if anyone here is willing to set this up?

In general, yes we do see a lot of uptake of SHACL too, but much more "community" should arise. We at TopQuadrant can only do so much alone...

Holger




Thanks a lot for any pointers in advance,



Felix