SHACL

In June 2023 I attended a workshop in Hasselt, Belgium, organized by a research network on Knowledge Graphs and Data Integration. Linked Data-based systems and declarative SPARQL queries somehow magically do all the work efficiently, but how? For many people, presentations about using Linked Data and SPARQL already seem very technical. But this event went further, it covered the fundamental algorithms that power the Linked Data systems! In this post I try my best to briefly summarize some of the talks and highlight the added value of those fundamental and often behind-the-scenes work.

More and more data is created, but meaningfully answer questions with this data is not straightforward because we need a shared understanding of what the different data means and how it relates.

Our analysis of SHACL constraint type use based on publicly available SHACL shapes on GitHub