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SHAPEness: A SHACL-Driven Metadata Editor

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Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2022)

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Abstract

The Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) has been recently introduced as a W3C recommendation to define constraints for validating RDF graphs. In this paper a novel SHACL-driven multi-view editor is presented: SHAPEness. It empowers users by offering them a rich interface for assessing and improving the quality of metadata represented as RDF graphs. SHAPEness has been developed and tested in the framework of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS). In this context, the SHAPEness features have proven to be a valuable solution to easily create and maintain valid graphs according to the EPOS data model. The SHACL-driven approach underpinning SHAPEness, makes this tool suitable for a broad range of domains, or use cases, which structure their knowledge by means of SHACL constraints.

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Software Availability

SHAPEness source code and binaries [19] are freely distributed under the GNU General Public License GPL-3. Download, setup instructions, user manual and video tutorials are available on GitHubFootnote 26.

Notes

  1. 1.

    https://www.w3.org/RDF/.

  2. 2.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/.

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/shexSpec/shex/wiki/ShEx.

  4. 4.

    https://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/.

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/zazuko/shacl-playground.

  6. 6.

    https://www.docker.com/.

  7. 7.

    https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/ld4lLABS/The+VitroLib+Metadata+Editor.

  8. 8.

    https://www.ld4l.org/.

  9. 9.

    http://vivoweb.org/.

  10. 10.

    https://udfr.org/docs/onto/dct_isVersionOf.html.

  11. 11.

    https://wiki.eclipse.org/Rich_Client_Platform.

  12. 12.

    https://www.eclipse.org/swt/.

  13. 13.

    https://wiki.eclipse.org/JFace.

  14. 14.

    https://www.eclipse.org/gef/.

  15. 15.

    https://www.eclipse.org/gef/draw2d/index.php.

  16. 16.

    https://www.eclipse.org/gef/zest/.

  17. 17.

    https://aksw.org/Projects/Xturtle.html.

  18. 18.

    https://www.eclipse.org/jgit/.

  19. 19.

    https://jena.apache.org/.

  20. 20.

    https://www.oracle.com/technical-resources/articles/java/javareflection.html.

  21. 21.

    https://www.javassist.org/.

  22. 22.

    https://github.com/epos-eu/EPOS-DCAT-AP.

  23. 23.

    https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/semantic-interoperability-community-semic/solution/dcat-application-profile-data-portals-europe.

  24. 24.

    https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/continuous-integration/.

  25. 25.

    https://github.com/epos-eu/SHAPEness-Metadata-Editor/issues.

  26. 26.

    https://epos-eu.github.io/SHAPEness-Metadata-Editor/.

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The authors would like to acknowledge the following projects and initiatives for financing part of the activities: EPOS-ERIC for sustainability and management; ENVRI-FAIR, European Commission H2020 program, Grant agreement ID 824068.

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    Rossana Paciello, Daniele Bailo & Manuela Sbarra

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    Rossana Paciello, Daniele Bailo & Valerio Vinciarelli

  3. Department of R&D Seismology and Acoustics, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), Utrechtseweg 297, 3731 GA, De Bilt, The Netherlands

    Luca Trani

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Paciello, R., Trani, L., Bailo, D., Vinciarelli, V., Sbarra, M. (2023). SHAPEness: A SHACL-Driven Metadata Editor. In: Garoufallou, E., Vlachidis, A. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1789. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39141-5_23

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