Re: A library that converts regular JSON to JSON-LD

> On 2020-04-11, at 21:22:27, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
> 
> On 4/11/20 11:54 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
>> Is there are library that converts simple json (think just a flat object of key value pairs)
>> Into JSON-LD -- any value form will do, if some hacking of the context is needed, that would be fine
>> If no library, is there an algorithm?
>> And if no algorithm, could we make one?
> 
> I have not seen one yet, but it's good idea.  In particular, the algorithm needs to recursively traverse the JSON tree and keep track of nesting to generate an @context that will keep nested properties of the same name distinct.

the original request, above, concerned just “simple json”.

>  See the discussion here:
> https://github.com/w3c/EasierRDF/issues/29

while that discussion treats syntactic issues, neither it nor the cited thread - in which a similar question two years ago from mr carvalho went unanswered, approach the pertinent question: how is the context to effect mappings from field names to meaningful terms?

> 
> Once such an algorithm is defined, it could become a standard way to map plain JSON to RDF.
> 
> David Booth
> 

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