[data-shapes] Add section about `VERSION` (#769)

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== Add section about `VERSION` ==
Plan for possible future versions of SHACL Rules.

`VERSION` allows for future evaluation of SHACL Rules.

The version is a string from a controlled vocabulary - the rules spec defines the permitted version labels - this is a feature for the human reader. The Rules spec can provide URIs for the `VERSION` strings.

We might consider a grammar change to only allow it as the first line (after any comments).

This is not the supported version of RDF.

seeAlso: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-concepts/#section-version-announcement
seeAlso: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-turtle/#sec-version


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