SHACL

W3C language for validating RDF data against shapes, closer to schema checking than to OWL's open-world reasoning; a Recommendation since July 2017.

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Part of threads Expressiveness against tractability workaround; Unknown or false? settles

builds on

• RDF standard 1999 [src]

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

edited by

• Dimitris Kontokostas person [src]
• Holger Knublauch person [src]

succeeded by

• SHACL 1.2 standard 2025 [src]

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-shacl-20170720/