ShEx gets Best In-Use Paper award at ESWC 2019

Congratulations to Katherine Thornton et al for winning Best Paper in the In-Use track at ESWC 2019 for “Using Shape Expressions (ShEx) to Share RDF Data Models and to Guide Curation with Rigorous Validation”(awards page).

Wikidata infrastructure supports ShEx

The ShEx Community Group is excited by the recent announcement that Wikidata’s support for ShEx has moved from testing to deployment. This will increase its existing use for facilitating consensus around domain models as a basis for quality assurance. “In the spirit of Wikidata not restricting the world,” explains Léa Lacroix of Wikidata, “Shape Expressions are a tool to highlight, not prevent, errors.”

Using a schema for disease) are stored in ShEx compact syntax on wiki pages and linked to a tool for checking selected data. Next in the development pipeline will be a tool for suggesting a basic structure when new Wikidata items are added.

Links:

• Youtube video presented at the Wikimedia Hackathon, 19 May 2019

ShEx 2.0 Candidate Release

The ShEx Community Group would like to invite public review of three deliverables:

• Shape Expressions (ShEx) Primer Shape Expressions Language 2.0 Shape Expressions Test Suite https://github.com/shexSpec/shexTest/ including:
  • 337 schemas in three representations:
    • ShExC: compact syntax
    • ShExJ: JSON-LD 1.0 syntax
    • ShExR: Turtle syntax
  • 927 validation tests.
  • 101 ShExC negative syntax tests
  • 7 negative structure tests.

The test suite has a Implementation Report including 4 of the 5 implementations: http://shexspec.github.io/shexTest/reports

For feature requests please note the features in the 2.1 milestone: https://github.com/shexSpec/shex/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A2.1

Many of these have been implemented and tested but are not in this version of the specification. We invite feedback from the community on issues with the documents or tests, new feature prioritization and new feature use cases.

Comments are welcome on the ShEx Community Group mailing list (archived): [email protected]

Readers may also wish to join the ShEx Community Group: https://www.w3.org/community/shex/join

Sincerely,

• Andra Waagmeester
• Dimitris Kontokostas
• Eric Prud’hommeaux
• Gregg Kellogg
• Harold Solbrig
• Iovka Boneva
• Jose Emilio
• Labra Gayo
• Karen Coyle
• Katherine Thornton
• Tom Baker

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