RE: Ergonomic output for JSON-LD?

On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 5:48 PM, Paul Houle wrote:
> I working on a JSON based API where I want to turn the JSON somebody
> sees into an RDF graph,  then I make a new RDF graph and send it back
> as JSON.
> 
> Internally the system uses the JSON-LD transformation,  and it takes
> just a @vocab statement to handle the import from a format that looks
> like it was design natively for JSON.
> 
> On the way back,  however,  it seems not so easy to get output that
> JSON users would recognize.  For instance you can channel N-triples
> pretty easily,  but you need some kindof plan to create JSON-LD which
> looks like the kind of JSON they would put into Mongodb or Marklogic
> and the tools I have seen so far do not have it.
> 
> Is there something better out there?

What you are looking for is JSON-LD Framing:

   http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/json-ld-framing/

Unfortunately the spec is not done yet (and is not currently being worked on). Nevertheless, most processors support it (but their behavior might differ slightly).


HTH,
Markus


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