Validating RDF data

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The book is published by Morgan & Claypool in the series Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology edited by Ying Ding and Paul Groth. Please, cite the book as:

Jose E. Labra Gayo, Eric Prud’hommeaux, Iovka Boneva, Dimitris Kontokostas (2018) Validating RDF Data, Synthesis Lectures on the Semantic Web: Theory and Technology, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1-328, DOI: 10.2200/S00786ED1V01Y201707WBE016, Morgan & Claypool

ISBN: 9781681731643 paperback, ISBN: 9781681731650 ebook, ISBN: 9781681731667 e-pub

Copyright © 2018 by Morgan & Claypool. All rights reserved.

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• Contents
  • Abstract
• Preface
• Foreword by Phil Archer
• Foreword by Tom Baker
• Foreword by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • RDF and the Web of Data
  • RDF: The Good Parts
  • Challenges for RDF Adoption
  • Structure of the Book
  • Conventions and Notation
• The RDF Ecosystem
  • RDF History
  • RDF Data Model
  • Shared Entites and Vocabularies
  • Technologies Related with RDF
  • Summary
  • Suggested Reading
• Data Quality
  • Non-RDF Schema Languages
  • Understanding the RDF Validation Problem
  • Previous RDF Validation Approaches
  • Validation Requirements
  • Summary
  • Suggested Reading
• Shape Expressions
  • Use of ShEx
  • First Example
  • ShEx implementations
  • The Shape Expressions Language
  • Node Constraints
  • Shapes
  • References
  • Logical Operators
  • Shape Maps
  • Semantic Actions
  • ShEx and Inference
  • Importing schemas
  • RDF and JSON-LD Syntax
  • Summary
  • Suggested Reading
• SHACL
  • Simple Example
  • SHACL Implementations
  • Basic Definitions: Shapes Graphs, Node, and Property Shapes
  • Importing other Shapes Graphs
  • Validation Report
  • Shapes
  • Target Declarations
  • Cardinality
  • Constraints on Values
  • Datatype Facets
  • Logical Constraints: and, or, not, xone
  • Shape-based Constraints
  • Closed Shapes
  • Property Pair Constraints
  • Non-validating SHACL Properties
  • SHACL-SPARQL
  • SHACL and Inference Systems
  • SHACL Compact Syntax
  • SHACL Rules and Advanced Features
  • SHACL Javascript
  • Summary
  • Suggested Reading
• Applications
  • Describing a Linked Data Portal
  • Describing Clinical Records—FHIR
  • Springer Nature SciGraph
  • DBpedia Validation Use Cases
  • ShEx for ShEx
  • SHACL in SHACL
  • Summary
  • Suggested Reading
• Comparing ShEx and SHACL
  • Common Features
  • Syntactic Differences
  • Foundation: Schema vs. Constraints
  • Invoking Validation
  • Modularization and Reusability
  • Shapes, Classes, and Inference
  • Violation Reporting and Severities
  • Default Cardinalities
  • Property Paths
  • Recursion
  • Property Pair Constraints and Uniqueness
  • Repeated Properties
  • Exactly One and Alternatives
  • Treatment of Closed Shapes
  • Stems and Stem Ranges
  • Annotations
  • Semantics and Complexity
  • Extension Mechanisms
  • Conclusions and Outlook
  • Summary
  • Suggested Reading
• WebIndex in ShEx
• WebIndex in SHACL
• ShEx in ShEx
• SHACL in SHACL
• References
• Authors’ Biographies
  • Jose Emilio Labra Gayo
  • Eric Prud’hommeaux
  • Iovka Boneva
  • Dimitris Kontokostas
• Index

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