OWL Property Restrictions vs. SHACL

Question

Given a choice between OWL Property Restrictions and SHACL, is there any reason to choose the OWL approach any more?

Particularly with respect to cardinality constraints

Answer 1

I think the fact that OWL is fully based on the Open World Assumption makes it quite unique. There are use cases where you bring together many datasets from many different sources that need this unique feature. For any given fact there may always be different opinions from different sources. Fundamental support in your "data fabric" (or Enterprise Knowledge Graph) for "Multiple versions of the Truth" is critical or even stronger: it is the single most important enabler for enterprise-wide use cases. For the EKG we need OWL to be the core. To form the "unbiased" representation of all your data, not forcing any particular closed world view of the world, inferring all the right facts. With lots of translation languages in the onion ring around that such as SHACL (strict context-specific closed-world shapes of objects), SPARQL (graph 2 tabular), R2RML (tabular 2 graph) and so forth.