How can we deactivate rdfs:label constraint?

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Hamid Abdirad

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Feb 9, 2024, 2:44:20 PMFeb 9
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Hello,
AFAIK, EDG requires a rdfs:label for named nodes and raises the following violation when it is not available:
Missing label
Suggestion: Generate a label for

My question:
(1) Is it possible to deactivate this constraint for select collections? EDG Version: 7.8.0 

It looks like this constraint is in the built-in system collections/imports and I am unable to reliably track it. 

I am experimenting with some large datasets in which we do not really need/have a label for all nodes, so I do not want to make up thousands of triples for labels just to avoid these violations. 

Thank you


Holger Knublauch

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Feb 10, 2024, 6:18:30 AMFeb 10
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I believe it should disappear when you add a triple

teamworkconstraints:MissingLabelConstraint sh:deactivated true .

HTH
Holger



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Hamid Abdirad

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Feb 13, 2024, 4:12:00 PMFeb 13
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Hi Holger, 
I tried inserting the triple, but it did not deactivate the shape. Do you know any other workaround?
BTW. I see this comment on that shape, not sure if it matters here:

"As of TopBraid 7.8, the validation engine will bypass the SPARQL query and use a native, optimized query instead."

Thank you,
Hamid



Holger Knublauch

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Feb 14, 2024, 5:33:48 AMFeb 14
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Hi Hamid,

where did you place the sh:deactivated triple? It should go into an Ontology, not another asset collection such as Taxonomy. I have just tried it and the deactivation seems to work. You are right about the change to bypass the SPARQL engine for 7.8 but I checked the code that it will perform the sh:deactivated check before executing the native implementation.

As a bit of technical background: SHACL distinguishes between data graphs and shapes graphs. In TopBraid, the shapes graphs are considered to be stored in Ontologies and their owl:imports (esp files). Placing shape-related triples into instance data graphs will usually not have any effect.

Holger


Hamid Abdirad

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Mar 24, 2024, 5:13:54 PMMar 24
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Thank you, Holger. I place the triple into the ontology and it is working as expected. 
The explanation of the technical background makes sense. We will avoid placing shape-related triples in the data graphs. 

Best,
Hamid
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