arXiv:1501.03933v3 [cs.LO] 17 Jul 2015 RDF Validation Requirements - Evaluation and Logical Underpinning Thomas Bosch 1 , Andreas Nolle 2 , Erman Acar 3 , and Kai Eckert 3 1 GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany thomas.bosch@gesis.org, 2 Albstadt-Sigmaringen University, Germany nolle@hs-albsig.de 3 University of Mannheim, Germany {erman, kai}@informatik.uni-mannheim.de Abstract. There are many case studies for which the formulation of RDF constraints and the validation of RDF data conforming to these constraint is very important. As a part of the collaboration with the W3C and the DCMI working groups on RDF validation, we identified major RDF validation requirements and initiated an RDF validation require- ments database which is available to contribute at http://purl.org/net/rdf-validation. The purpose of this database is to collaboratively collect case studies, use cases, requirements, and solutions regarding RDF validation. Although, there are multiple constraint languages which can be used to formulate RDF constraints (associated with these requirements), there is no stan- dard way to formulate them. This paper serves to evaluate to which ex- tend each requirement is satisfied by each of these constraint languages. We take reasoning into account as an important pre-validation step and therefore map constraints to DL in order to show that each constraint can be mapped to an ontology describing RDF constraints generically. Keywords: RDF Validation, RDF Validation Requirements, RDF Con- straints, Constraint Languages, Evaluation, Linked Data, Semantic Web 1 Introduction The W3C organized the RDF Validation Workshop 4 , where experts from in- dustry, government, and academia discussed first use cases for RDF constraint formulation and validation. In 2014, two working groups on RDF validation have been established: the W3C RDF Data Shapes 5 and the DCMI RDF Ap- plication Profiles working groups 6 . Bosch and Eckert [1] collected the findings of these working groups and initiated a database of requirements to formulate and validate RDF constraints. The database is available for contribution at http://purl.org/net/rdf-validation. The intention associated with this database 4 http://www.w3.org/2012/12/rdf-val/ 5 http://www.w3.org/2014/rds/charter 6 http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/RDF-Application-Profiles