#212: Added sh:ShapeClass

Author: HolgerKnublauch

shacl12-core/index.html

@@ -1157,6 +1157,16 @@ <h4>Implicit Class Targets</h4>
 							in a <a>shapes graph</a> <code>SG</code> and <code>s</code> is also a <a>SHACL instance</a> of <code>rdfs:Class</code>
 							in <code>SG</code> then the set of <a>SHACL instances</a> of <code>s</code> in a data graph <code>DG</code> is a <a>target</a> from <code>DG</code> for <code>s</code> in <code>SG</code>.
 						</div>
+						<p id="ShapeClass">
+							The SHACL namespace includes a dedicated metaclass <code>sh:ShapeClass</code> that can serve as a syntactic shortcut for the implicit class targets pattern.
+						</p>
+						<div class="def">
+							<div class="def-header">TEXTUAL DEFINITION</div>
+							The class <code>sh:ShapeClass</code> is an <code>rdfs:subClassOf</code> of both <code>sh:NodeShape</code> and <code>rdfs:Class</code>.
+							<code>sh:ShapeClass</code> has itself as its <code>rdf:type</code>.
+							If <code>s</code> is a <a>SHACL instance</a> of <code>sh:ShapeClass</code> in a <a>shapes graph</a> <code>SG</code>
+							then the set of <a>SHACL instances</a> of <code>s</code> in a data graph <code>DG</code> is a <a>target</a> from <code>DG</code> for <code>s</code> in <code>SG</code>.
+						</div>
 						<p><em>The remainder of this section is informative.</em></p>
 						<p>
 							In the following example, <code>ex:Alice</code> is a focus node, because it is a <a>SHACL instance</a> of
@@ -1168,6 +1178,13 @@ <h4>Implicit Class Targets</h4>
 							<pre class="example-data">
 <span class="focus-node-selected">ex:Alice</span> a ex:Person .
 ex:NewYork a ex:Place .</pre>
+						<p>
+							In the following variation of the example above, <code>ex:Person</code> is declared as an instance of <code>sh:ShapeClass</code>,
+							with the same interpretation.
+						</p>
+						<pre class="example-shapes">
+ex:Person
+	<b>a sh:ShapeClass</b> .</pre>
 					</section>
 
 					<section id="targetSubjectsOf">
@@ -4474,12 +4491,19 @@ <h2>Acknowledgements</h2>
 		<section class="appendix informative">
 		  <h2>Revision History</h2>
 			<p>
-				The detailed list of changes and their diffs can be found in the Git repository.
+				The detailed list of changes and their diffs can be found in the <a href="https://github.com/w3c/data-shapes">Git repository</a>.
 			</p>
 			<ul>
 				<li><b>2024-02-14</b>: New work started by cloning the main SHACL spec and splitting it into SHACL Core and SHACL-SPARQL</li>
 			</ul>
 		</section>
+
+		<section class="appendix informative" id="changes-12">
+			<h2>Changes between SHACL 1.0 Core and SHACL 1.2 Core</h2>
+			<ul>
+				<li>Added the new metaclass <a href="#ShapeClass"><code>sh:ShapeClass</code></a> as syntactic sugar for implicit class targets, see <a href="https://github.com/w3c/data-shapes/issues/212">Issue 212</a></li>
+			</ul>
+		</section>
 
 	</body>
 

shacl12-test-suite/tests/core/targets/manifest.ttl

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 	mf:include <multipleTargets-001.ttl> ;
 	mf:include <targetClass-001.ttl> ;
 	mf:include <targetClassImplicit-001.ttl> ;
+	mf:include <targetClassImplicit-002.ttl> ;
 	mf:include <targetNode-001.ttl> ;
 	mf:include <targetObjectsOf-001.ttl> ;
 	mf:include <targetSubjectsOf-001.ttl> ;

shacl12-test-suite/tests/core/targets/targetClassImplicit-002.ttl

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+@prefix dash: <http://datashapes.org/dash#> .
+@prefix ex: <http://datashapes.org/sh/tests/core/targets/targetClassImplicit-002.test#> .
+@prefix mf: <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/test-manifest#> .
+@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
+@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
+@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
+@prefix sh: <http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl#> .
+@prefix sht: <http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl-test#> .
+@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
+
+ex:InvalidInstance
+  rdf:type ex:SubClass ;
+  rdfs:label "Invalid instance" ;
+.
+ex:SubClass
+  rdf:type rdfs:Class ;
+  rdfs:label "Sub class" ;
+  rdfs:subClassOf ex:SuperClass ;
+.
+ex:SuperClass
+  a sh:ShapeClass ;
+  rdfs:label "Super class" ;
+  sh:in (
+      ex:ValidInstance
+    ) ;
+.
+ex:ValidInstance
+  rdf:type ex:SubClass ;
+  rdfs:label "Valid instance" ;
+.
+<>
+  rdf:type mf:Manifest ;
+  mf:entries (
+      <targetClassImplicit-002>
+    ) ;
+.
+<targetClassImplicit-002>
+  rdf:type sht:Validate ;
+  rdfs:label "Verify that sh:ShapeClass is interpreted as implicit class target" ;
+  mf:action [
+      sht:dataGraph <> ;
+      sht:shapesGraph <> ;
+    ] ;
+  mf:result [
+      rdf:type sh:ValidationReport ;
+      sh:conforms "false"^^xsd:boolean ;
+      sh:result [
+          rdf:type sh:ValidationResult ;
+          sh:focusNode ex:InvalidInstance ;
+          sh:resultSeverity sh:Violation ;
+          sh:sourceConstraintComponent sh:InConstraintComponent ;
+          sh:sourceShape ex:SuperClass ;
+          sh:value ex:InvalidInstance ;
+        ] ;
+    ] ;
+  mf:status sht:approved ;
+.

shacl12-vocabularies/shacl.ttl

@@ -54,6 +54,13 @@ sh:PropertyShape
 	rdfs:subClassOf sh:Shape ;
 	rdfs:isDefinedBy sh: .
 
+sh:ShapeClass
+  a sh:ShapeClass ;
+  rdfs:comment "A shape class is a class that is also a node shape. sh:ShapeClass can be used as rdf:type instead of the combination of rdfs:Class and sh:NodeShape."@en ;
+  rdfs:label "Shape class"@en ;
+  rdfs:subClassOf rdfs:Class ;
+  rdfs:subClassOf sh:NodeShape .
+
 sh:deactivated
 	a rdf:Property ;
 	rdfs:label "deactivated"@en ;