FW: New W3C SHACL WG

[Beaudet, David]

FYI for anyone interested in data shaping or Apache Jena.

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Car <ni...@kurrawong.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 8:53 PM
To: us...@jena.apache.org
Cc: Eliana Papoutsoglou <eliana.pa...@taxonic.com>
Subject: New W3C SHACL WG

Dear Jena users,

The W3C has formed a second Data Shapes WG to extend and maintain SHACL-based Recommendations (standards).

Many (all?) of you will be aware of SHACL and Jena's implementation of SHACL validation. This new WG will enhance SHACL in line with RDF-Star developments and also push SHACL into new and interesting areas, such as formally-defined profiling (of SHACL Shape collections and other RDF resources).

You will find all information on the Working Group on the Group's home page: https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/data-shapes, in particular the WG's Charter:

https://www.w3.org/2024/12/data-shapes.html

Please see the proposed Deliverables:

- SHACL 1.2 Core

- SHACL 1.2 SPARQL Extensions
- SHACL 1.2 User Interfaces
- SHACL 1.2 Inferencing Rules
- SHACL 1.2 Profiling

- SHACL 1.2 Compact Syntax

Some of those Deliverables are updates in like with RDF 1.2 (RDF-Star), others are extensions that have been anticipated for a while (SHACL UI, SHACL CS) and some are innovations (SHACL Inferencing Rules & Profiling).

If you are interested in participating, you may join the WG - see the Group's home page, linked to above, for joining details - and you may also watch the development of the Deliverables online without joining as much of the WG's activities will be public in GitHub & W3C meeting reports etc.

Please promote this WG to other Semantic Web communities you are members of.

Regards,

Nick & ElianaData Shapes WG Co-Chairs