On behalf of my employer (TopQuadrant) I can say that we have dozens of
organizations as customers and they all use SHACL (in one way or another).
These are companies that run internal projects and therefore typically don’t
share their findings or use cases with the public. We do have internal and
external communication channels where these customers ask questions, but only
the topbraid-users mailing list is public and occasionally has SHACL-related
questions.
https://groups.google.com/g/topbraid-users
<https://groups.google.com/g/topbraid-users>
So there is much more SHACL going on inside of company firewalls than on a
world wide Semantic Web.
In terms of informative validation, we do have various SHACL extensions
including a suggestions framework, see http://datashapes.org
<http://datashapes.org/> for ideas.
Holger
> On 28 Jun 2022, at 12:51 am, Paul Tyson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Can anyone point to websites, mailing lists, or other forum where users are
> discussing questions, use cases, and solutions involving RDF shapes (ShEx or
> SHACL)? There is plenty of technical information about both languages, but
> not so much real-world practical discussion.
>
> I recently started exploring the shex and shacl features of jena, using the
> command-line interface to begin with. I have a basic conceptual understanding
> of RDF shapes, but have never implemented any applications with them, so am
> just learning the technical details.
>
> My use cases go beyond simple validation. I need "informative" validation
> that will report not only conformance, but specific defects. I also want to
> generate graphs from a shape and variable bindings.
>
> Thanks in advance for advice and pointers.
>
> Best,
>
> --Paul
>
>
