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Theme fund: NGI0 Commons Fund
Start: 2025-10

ShapeThing SHACL renderer

View, edit and filter semantic data

Linked data (RDF) is very good on a data storage level to enable interoperability and standardization. However user interfaces on top of linked data are often complex and not user friendly. This project is a developer library which generates user interfaces from SHACL shapes or RDF data itself. These user interfaces are forms to create and edit data, displays of data and facets to search through the data. Alongside the visual user interfaces it can generate, it can also generate TypeScript types from SHACL shapes and it can transform linked data to Javascript objects. All of these functionalities help a developer easily create applications on top of Linked data. This library uses the SHACL W3C standard and will integrate with the upcoming SHACL UI 1.2 standard.

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This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).