Everything about ShEx

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ShExA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Invisible beautyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: Modeling and validating HL7 FHIR profiles using semantic web Shape Expressions (ShEx)Cited 34 times
4. Go sideways: SHACLA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: SPARQLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Modeling and validating HL7 FHIR profiles using semantic web Shape Expressions (ShEx)

  Harold R. Solbrig, Eric Prud'hommeaux, Grahame Grieve · 2017 · Journal of Biomedical Informatics · 34 citations

• Shape Expressions (ShEx) schemas for the FHIR R5 specification

  Deepak K. Sharma, Eric Prud'hommeaux, David Booth · 2023 · Journal of Biomedical Informatics · 5 citations

• NIMS polymer database PoLyInfo (III): modularizing ShEx schemas for descriptors and properties in PoLyInfoRDF

  Koichi Sakamoto, Masashi Ishii · 2025 · Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods · 2 citations

• Phonetics Study in Turksh Poem of Shex Reza Talebani

  · 2022 · ZANCO Journal of Humanity Sciences · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Invisible beautyRuya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq · 2015

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🔗 Related topics

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• SPARQL SPARQL (pronounced "sparkle", a recursive acronym for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) is an RDF query language—that is, a semantic query language…
• Resource Description Framework The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data. It was originally designed as a data model for metadata by the…
• LinkML The Linked Data Modeling Language, or LinkML, is a data modeling framework based on YAML that aims to "bring semantic web standards to the masses, simplifying…
• RDF Schema RDF Schema (Resource Description Framework Schema, variously abbreviated as RDFS, RDF(S), RDF-S, or RDF/S) is a set of classes with certain properties…
• SciGraph SciGraph was a search engine tool developed by Springer Nature, the former URL was https://scigraph.springernature.com/explorer. The technology, which…
• TriG (syntax) TriG is a serialization format for RDF (Resource Description Framework) graphs. It is a plain text format for serializing named graphs and RDF Datasets…
• XML Schema (W3C) XSD (XML Schema Definition), a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), specifies how to formally describe the elements in an Extensible…