by Irene Polikoff | Jul 13, 2020 | The Semantic Ecosystems Journal, TopBraid EDG, Linked Data, SHACL, Semantic, Knowledge Graphs
Many of our customers need to configure TopBraid EDG to meet their unique requirements. TopBraid EDG is a low-code solution. This means that many types of configurations and customizations of EDG do not require programming. For example, EDG supports ability to do the...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 29, 2020 | The Semantic Ecosystems Journal, ontology, TopBraid EDG, Linked Data, SHACL, Ontologies, Semantic, Knowledge Graphs
If you are creating or modifying ontologies with TopBraid EDG, you have probably noticed that every new class you create is also a Node Shape. You may also noted that there is a separate panel called Node Shapes and classes do not show up on it even if they are Node...
by Irene Polikoff | Jun 29, 2020 | The Semantic Ecosystems Journal, ontology, TopBraid EDG, Linked Data, SHACL, Ontologies, Semantic, Knowledge Graphs
If you are creating or modifying ontologies with TopBraid EDG, you may wonder “What are property shapes and how are they different from properties?”. All data captured by EDG is stored in its graph database. Graph are formed by linking together simple...
by Irene Polikoff | Apr 13, 2020 | The Semantic Ecosystems Journal, ontology, TopBraid EDG, Linked Data, SHACL, Ontologies, Semantic, Knowledge Graphs
If you are familiar with TopBraid Composer and are starting to use TopBraid EDG, one of your questions may be “How do I bring ontologies I have been developing in TBC into EDG?” Since EDG assigns a specific meaning to the term ontology and TBC does not, to...
by Holger Knublauch | Jun 13, 2017 | The Semantic Ecosystems Journal, TopBraid EVN, TopBraid EDG, SHACL, TopBraid EDG, Linked Data, SHACL
RDF data validation is the process of checking a (data) graph against constraints from a schema definition. In the Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL), constraints are themselves expressed in a RDF syntax, in so-called shapes graphs. SHACL-based validation engines can...
by Holger Knublauch | Jun 12, 2017 | The Semantic Ecosystems Journal, SPARQL, Data Governance, TopBraid EVN, TopBraid EDG, SHACL, TopBraid EDG, Linked Data, SHACL, Ontologies, Ontologies
After two and half years of collaboration and discussions, the W3C Data Shapes Working Group has produced a collection of specifications that define the features of the Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL): SHACL (Official W3C Standard Recommendation) is the main...