SHACL Shapes for the DCAT Application Profile for Data Portals in Switzerland

This project provides SHACL to validate metadata against the eCH-0200 Standard.

Status

This project is work in progress. The functionality described in this README might not yet be implemented or not yet work as described.

Files

• ech-0200.shacl.ttl : This file models the constraints defined in eCH-200 with the SHACL vocabulary
• examples/ : This directory contains RDF Turtle files that can be used to test ech-0200.shacl.ttl. The conventions is that files ending with .valid.ttl will validate and files einding with .fail.ttldo not validate.

Usage

To use the Shapes to validate data you need a SHACL validator such as TopBraid SHACL API. With this validator you can validate RDF Turtle files as follows:

shaclvalidate -shapesfile ech-0200.shacl.ttl -datafile data.ttl

For example (from this directory):

shaclvalidate -shapesfile ech-0200.shacl.ttl -datafile .\examples\minimal.valid.ttl

References

This project is similar an partially based on the EU DCAT-AP SHACL constraint definitions.

Note on language

While the eCH-0200 Specification is available in German and French the SHACL Shapes are documented in English to better allign with other Shape files and tools that are likely used together.

License

As prospective part of an eCH standard the code and documentations in this repository can be used, distributed and further developed without any restriction by patents or licenses.