SHACL and INSPIRE

[nicky508]

We were wondering how we could validate whether the data complies to the RDF inpire guideliness. How could we detect flaws. Then we thought, since everything is in RDF, it would be possible (theoretically) to validate the data using SHACL shapes (https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/). Shapes will detect violations of the guideliness, which will be very helpfull for people which converted their data to INSPIRE RDF.

[andrea-perego]

SHACL can indeed be an option.

About metadata, some work is under-way to prepare a SHACL definition of DCAT-AP and related profiles (GeoDCAT-AP included).

The very first drafts are available here: https://github.com/SEMICeu/dcat-ap_shacl