.. _SHACLRulesEngine:

SHACL Rules Engine
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

The SHACL rules engine implements support for inferencing using SHACL.
In particular, it can be used to execute SHACL rules and *property value rules*.


**Further Reading on SHACL**

* `Form Generation using SHACL and DASH (External Link) <https://datashapes.org/forms.html>`_
* `SHACL Advanced Features Specification (External Link) <https://w3c.github.io/shacl/shacl-af/>`_
* `SHACL W3C Specification (External Link) <https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/>`_

**Further Reading on Ontologies**

* :ref:`working_with_ontologies_target`

**Further Reading on TopBraid**

* :ref:`introduction`