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SHACL for the Practitioner
Exploring knowledge graphs through the Shapes Constraint Language. A hands-on guide, written and illustrated by hand.
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Exploring knowledge graphs through the Shapes Constraint Language. A hands-on guide, written and illustrated by hand.
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SHACL for the Practitioner guides you from the fundamentals of RDF, semantic technologies and knowledge graphs through the full depth of the Shapes Constraint Language, with hand-drawn illustrations, real code, and stories from production.
Written and illustrated by Veronika Heimsbakk, edited by Larry Swanson, with a foreword by Holger Knublauch, one of the original authors of the SHACL specification. The book is typeset in LaTeX with hand-drawn chapter illustrations traced to vector in Inkscape. Every diagram, every unicorn, every page: crafted with care.
RDF, the Semantic Web, logic and the Resource Description Framework, from scratch.
Shapes, constraint components, SHACL-SPARQL and the SHACL engine explained.
Nine real-world case studies from maritime authorities to railway law.
Exercises, logical puzzles, and companion code on GitHub to put theory into practice.
Three parts, seventeen chapters, plus appendices. From first principles to production-grade stories.
Guest authors share how SHACL drives data-driven value across industries and organizations worldwide.
Reviewed and proofread by leading SHACL experts.
"The material is super useful for anyone working with graph technologies."
"I couldn't ask for a better introduction to this space."
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