What do people want to know about when asking what Shapes target something #582
Description
If I load data and ontology into a Knowledge Graph as well as shapes that target things via targetCass, targetNode and so on, I can ask the question of any object: what targets you? The simple answer to this is just "a shape" but what do people really want to know?
Do they want to know that there's a collection of shapes that has a logic to it that targets the class/individual? This is likely, I think, as the collection of shapes might be declaring a defined profile of the ontology or data that the class/individual is in and knowing about it would help the user understand use of the class/individual.
This is an interpretation of targetClass etc. as a specialised kind of prof:isProfileOf declaration.
A solution to this issue could be any of the following:
- this is of no interest to anyone - do nothing
- conceptual or ontological alignment of
targetClassetc. withprof:isProfileOf- this would require an alignment of groups of shapes with a
prof:Profile
- this would require an alignment of groups of shapes with a
- something else not yet thought of
If something is to be done, the outcome will be advice/models etc in the SHACL Profiling specification.