# EU Open Data Portal SHACL Validation API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/eu-open-data-portal/eu-open-data-portal-mqa-shacl-validation-api/  
**Provider:** EU Open Data Portal — https://apis.io/providers/eu-open-data-portal/  
**Base URL:** https://data.europa.eu/api/mqa/shacl  
**Documentation:** https://data.europa.eu/api/mqa/shacl/

EU Open Data Portal SHACL Validation API is one of 7 APIs that [EU Open Data Portal](https://apis.io/providers/eu-open-data-portal/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Validation, SHACL, DCAT-AP, and RDF. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, an API reference, and API documentation.

A public RDF validation service that runs a submitted DCAT-AP graph against the official DCAT-AP SHACL shapes and returns a SHACL validation report. Supports the DCAT-AP 2.x and 3.x shape models plus customised runs that add range, recommended-field and controlled-vocabulary checks. Unauthenticated, single POST operation.

## Operations (1)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/validation/report` | SHACL based validation and report creation |

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eu-open-data-portal/refs/heads/main/openapi/eu-open-data-portal-mqa-shacl-openapi.yaml
- **APIReference** — https://data.europa.eu/api/mqa/shacl/
- **Documentation** — https://dataeuropa.gitlab.io/data-provider-manual/api-documentation/
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eu-open-data-portal/refs/heads/main/overlays/eu-open-data-portal-mqa-shacl-overlay.yaml
- **SourceCode** — https://gitlab.com/dataeuropa/mqa/validating-shacl

## Other EU Open Data Portal APIs (6)

- [EU Open Data Portal Search API (hub-search)](https://apis.io/apis/eu-open-data-portal/eu-open-data-portal-search-api/)
- [EU Open Data Portal Registry API (hub-repo)](https://apis.io/apis/eu-open-data-portal/eu-open-data-portal-registry-api/)
- [EU Open Data Portal MQA Metrics Cache API](https://apis.io/apis/eu-open-data-portal/eu-open-data-portal-mqa-metrics-cache-api/)
- [EU Open Data Portal MQA Metrics Reporter API](https://apis.io/apis/eu-open-data-portal/eu-open-data-portal-mqa-metrics-reporter-api/)
- [EU Open Data Portal Statistics API](https://apis.io/apis/eu-open-data-portal/eu-open-data-portal-statistics-api/)
- [EU Open Data Portal SPARQL API](https://apis.io/apis/eu-open-data-portal/eu-open-data-portal-sparql-api/)

## Tags

Validation, SHACL, DCAT-AP, RDF

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