Re: output of the compaction algorithm

Thank you very much! This was puzzling me.

Best Regards,

fps

> Le 13 avr. 2016 à 23:10, Dave Longley <dlongley@digitalbazaar.com> a écrit :
> 
> On 04/13/2016 04:22 PM, François-Paul Servant wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> there is something that I do not understand in the output of the compaction algorithm.
>> 
>> For the following JSON-LD:
>> {
>>  "@context" : {
>>    "label": {
>>      "@id" : "http://www.vocab.net/label",
>>      "@type" : "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#langString"
>>    },
>>    "homepage": {
>>      "@id": "http://www.vocab.net/homepage",
>>      "@type": "@id"
>>    }
>>  },
>> 
>>  "@id" : "http://www.a.com",
>>  "label": {
>>    "@value" : "a dot com",
>>    "@language" : "fr"
>>  },
>>  "homepage": "http://www.a.com/home”
>> 
>> that is, in turtle:
>> <http://www.a.com>
>>    <http://www.vocab.net/homepage> <http://www.a.com/home>;
>>    <http://www.a.com> <http://www.vocab.net/label> "a dot com"@fr .
>> 
>> }
>> 
>> why do we get the following compacted form (output of the JSON-LD playground, using same context, that I omit below):
>> 
>>  "@id": "http://www.a.com",
>>  "homepage": "http://www.a.com/home",
>>  "http://www.vocab.net/label": {
>>    "@language": "fr",
>>    "@value": "a dot com"
>>  }
>> 
>> (why "http://www.vocab.net/label", not just "label"?)
> 
> Because the `@type` doesn't match. JSON-LD doesn't know anything about
> RDF types like `langString`. It just sees that the value for
> "http://www.vocab.net/label" uses `@language` and not `@type` with a
> matching URI.
> 
> JSON-LD does know about the keyword `@language` though. So use that in
> your context instead if you want a simple `label` term in the output
> that is restricted to values that use the french language:
> 
> {
>  "@context": {
>    "label": {
>      "@id": "http://www.vocab.net/label",
>      "@language": "fr"
>    },
>    "homepage": {
>      "@id": "http://www.vocab.net/homepage",
>      "@type": "@id"
>    }
>  }
> }
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dave Longley
> CTO
> Digital Bazaar, Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2016 21:27:43 UTC