Merge pull request w3c-cg#17 from amivanoff/contributing-license

Contribution Guidelines with current style, switch to CC0-1.0 license

Author: VladimirAlexiev

CONTRIBUTING.md

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-# SHACL Community Group
+# Contribution Guidelines
 
-This repository is being used for work in the W3C SHACL Community Group, governed by the [W3C Community License
-Agreement (CLA)](http://www.w3.org/community/about/agreements/cla/). To make substantive contributions,
-you must join the CG.
+Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).
+By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
 
-If you are not the sole contributor to a contribution (pull request), please identify all
-contributors in the pull request comment.
+This repository is governed by the [CC0 license](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
 
-To add a contributor (other than yourself, that's automatic), mark them one per line as follows:
+To add, remove, or change things on the list: **Submit a pull request**.
 
+## Quality standards
+
+Please contribute links to packages/projects you have used or are familiar with. This will help ensure high-quality entries.
+
+To be on the list, project repositories should adhere to the following quality standards.
+
+- have at least 5 months of history since the first commit.
+- function as documented and expected;
+- be generally useful to the wider Semantic Web community;
+- be actively maintained or not maintained anymore but finished and extremely useful (should be marked with ☠️);
+- be stable or progressing toward stable;
+- have at least one official version-numbered release;
+- be open source or commercial (marked with 💰) software.
+
+Categories must have at least 3 items.
+
+## How to add an item to the list
+
+Open a pull request against the README.md document that adds the repository to the list.
+
+- The pull request could add more than one item to the list.
+- The added items should respect sorting within its category:
+  - by programming language first (if it is applicable),
+  - and then in alphabetical order.
+
+## Item format
+
+Non-software item must conform to the following format:
+
+`<link> - <Description>.`
+
+Software item must conform to the following format:
+
+`<link> <activity info> - <Description>.`
+
+Where:
+- The link:
+  - Should be the name of the package or project.
+  - The hyperlink should point to a specific module related to the category (e.g. in case of 'SHACL Validators' section, use `https://github.com/apache/jena/tree/main/jena-shacl`, not `https://github.com/apache/jena`).
+- Activity info:
+  - Should consists of two badges:
+    - Latest known stable version badge (from any most common binary repository or GH Releases).
+    - Recent repository activity badge.
+  - Use `<img align="top">` badge format to better inline alignment.
+  - Do not use any other badges (build status, dependencies, etc.).
+  - Additional icons could be used to mark commercial 💰 or abandoned ☠️ software.
+- Description:
+  - Should be clear, concise, and non-promotional.
+  - Should begin with a capital letter.
+  - May consist of several sentences.
+  - Should be separated from the activity info with spaces and a dash ` - `.
+  - Should contain license info and programming language at the end, formatted as `text in code quotes`.
+  - Should follow the link on the same line and end with a punctuation mark. Remember to put a period `.` at the end of the project description.
+
+### Examples
+
+#### Non-software items
+
+Without a description:
+
+```markdown
+- [SHACL 1.2 Core](https://w3c.github.io/shacl/shacl-core/)
 ```
-+@github_username
+
+With a description:
+```markdown
+- [Validating RDF Data (2018)](https://book.validatingrdf.com) - The SHACL and ShEx book.
 ```
 
-If you added a contributor by mistake, you can remove them in a comment with:
+#### Software module item with a description
 
+```markdown
+- [Apache Jena SHACL](https://github.com/apache/jena/tree/main/jena-shacl) <img alt="Maven Central Version" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.jena/jena-shacl" align="top"> <img alt="Maven Central Last Update" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/last-update/org.apache.jena/jena-shacl" align="top"> - Supports SHACL Core, SHACL-SPARQL; [docs](https://jena.apache.org/documentation/shacl/index.html); `Apache-2.0` license; `Java`.
 ```
--@github_username
-```
 
-If you are making a pull request on behalf of someone else but you had no part in designing the
-feature, you can remove yourself with the above syntax.
+## How to add a new category
+
+If you are creating a new category, move the projects that apply to the new category, ensuring
+that the resulting list has at least 3 projects in every category, and that the categories are alphabetized.
+
+## Updating your PR
+
+A lot of times, making a PR adhere to the standards above can be difficult.
+If the maintainers notice anything that we'd like changed, we'll ask you to
+edit your PR before we merge it. There's no need to open a new PR, just edit
+the existing one.
+
+## Congrats, your project got accepted - what now?
+
+You are an outstanding project now! Feel encouraged to tell others about it by adding one of these badges:  
+[![Mentioned in Awesome Semantic Shapes](https://awesome.re/mentioned-badge.svg)](https://github.com/w3c-cg/awesome-semantic-shapes)  
+[![Mentioned in Awesome Semantic Shapes](https://awesome.re/mentioned-badge-flat.svg)](https://github.com/w3c-cg/awesome-semantic-shapes)
+
+```md
+[![Mentioned in Awesome Semantic Shapes](https://awesome.re/mentioned-badge.svg)](https://github.com/w3c-cg/awesome-semantic-shapes)  
+[![Mentioned in Awesome Semantic Shapes](https://awesome.re/mentioned-badge-flat.svg)](https://github.com/w3c-cg/awesome-semantic-shapes)
+```

LICENSE

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LICENSE.md

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ Semantic shapes are frequently described using the SHACL or ShEx language.
 
 ## SHACL Validators
 
+Software tools or libraries, sorted by programming language.
+
 - [Apache Jena SHACL](https://github.com/apache/jena/tree/main/jena-shacl) <img alt="Maven Central Version" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.jena/jena-shacl" align="top"> <img alt="Maven Central Last Update" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/last-update/org.apache.jena/jena-shacl" align="top"> - Supports SHACL Core, SHACL-SPARQL; [docs](https://jena.apache.org/documentation/shacl/index.html); `Apache-2.0` license; `Java`.
 - [RDF4J SHACL Engine](https://github.com/eclipse-rdf4j/rdf4j/tree/main/core/sail/shacl) <img alt="Maven Central Version" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.eclipse.rdf4j/rdf4j-shacl" align="top"> <img alt="Maven Central Last Update" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/last-update/org.eclipse.rdf4j/rdf4j-shacl" align="top"> - Supports SHACL Core (without some property paths, see [5.0.3 improvements](https://github.com/Sveino/Inst4CIM-KG/issues/95#issuecomment-2437819932)), SHACL-SPARQL, incremental validation; [docs](https://rdf4j.org/documentation/programming/shacl/); `BSD-3-Clause` license; `Java`.
 - [TopBraid SHACL API](https://github.com/TopQuadrant/shacl) <img alt="Maven Central Version" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.topbraid/shacl" align="top"> <img alt="Maven Central Last Update" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/last-update/org.topbraid/shacl" align="top"> - Supports SHACL Core, SHACL-SPARQL, SHACL rules; based on Jena; `BSD-3-Clause` license; `Java`.
@@ -49,6 +51,8 @@ Semantic shapes are frequently described using the SHACL or ShEx language.
 
 ## ShEx Validators
 
+Software tools or libraries, sorted by programming language.
+
 - [Apache Jena ShEx](https://github.com/apache/jena/tree/main/jena-shex) <img alt="Maven Central Version" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/v/org.apache.jena/jena-shex" align="top"> <img alt="Maven Central Last Update" src="https://img.shields.io/maven-central/last-update/org.apache.jena/jena-shex" align="top"> - Supports ShEx, ShExC; not supported semantic actions, EXTERNAL; [docs](https://jena.apache.org/documentation/shex/); `Apache-2.0` license; `Java`.
 - [shexSpec/shex.js](https://github.com/shexjs/shex.js) <img alt="NPM Version" src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/shex" align="top"> <img alt="GitHub last commit" src="https://img.shields.io/github/last-commit/shexjs/shex.js" align="top"> - JavaScript implementation of Shape Expressions; `MIT` license; `JavaScript`.
   - [playground](http://rawgit.com/shexSpec/shex.js/master/doc/shex-simple.html) - Browser-based testbed.