SHACL - Programming language

SHACL, aka Shapes Constraint Language, is a programming language created in 2015.

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A standard language for describing Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs.

Tags: programming language
Early development of SHACL happened in W3C
See also: (1 related languages) RDF
Read more about SHACL on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

ex:PersonShape
a sh:NodeShape ;
sh:targetClass ex:Person ;    # Applies to all persons
sh:property [                 # _:b1
	sh:path ex:ssn ;           # constrains the values of ex:ssn
	sh:maxCount 1 ;
	sh:datatype xsd:string ;
	sh:pattern "^\\d{3}-\\d{2}-\\d{4}TEMPLATEquot; ;
] ;
sh:property [                 # _:b2
	sh:path ex:worksFor ;
	sh:class ex:Company ;
	sh:nodeKind sh:IRI ;
] ;
sh:closed true ;
sh:ignoredProperties ( rdf:type ) .