Re: JSON-LD to RDF question...

Thanks Antoine, 

also a nice suggestion...
for the specific problem I had, I solved it with the trivial context and a simple sed expression to convert the nested array into a string being parsed into one literal, that the "off-the-shelf" RDF conversion can digest ... sufficient for my use case, but I think list handling would be useful for JSON-LD still and stand by the opinion that I would like to see ISSUE 397 addressed:

> ... I like Pieter's proposal in https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/issues/397 <https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/issues/397> BTW.
> (Option 2 in https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/issues/397#issuecomment-153425387 <https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org/issues/397#issuecomment-153425387>)


best regards,
Axel


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url: http://www.polleres.net/  twitter: @AxelPolleres

> On 30.03.2018, at 01:29, Antoine Zimmermann <antoine.zimmermann@emse.fr> wrote:
> 
> Axel,
> 
> 
> Adding a valid @context to an existing JSON file will make a valid JSON-LD file, and therefore yield an RDF graph, but in all but the simplest cases, it will not be the graph you want.
> 
> From my experience, any non trivial data integration task with JSON and RDF will require a change in the structure of the JSON tree that cannot be emulated with any @context construction.
> 
> For such cases, you need a more expressive way to map JSON to RDF, either by programming a dedicated application or using a generic purpose mapping language, such as RML [1] or SPARQL-Generate [2] (or maybe XSPARQL?).
> 
> Being involved in the development of SPARQL-Generate, I recommend it! :)
> I wrote a transformation for you:
> 
> https://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/Data/geojson/query-geojson.rqg
> 
> which applies to your example data that I put at:
> 
> http://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/Data/geojson/geo.json
> 
> The transformation is not trivial at all because lists are a bit tricky to generate properly. It can be executed using our web service:
> 
> http://w3id.org/sparql-generate/api/transform?queryurl=https://www.emse.fr/~zimmermann/Data/geojson/query-geojson.rqg
> 
> You can play with the language using our online playground at:
> 
> https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/sparql-generate/playground.html
> 
> but if you have a lot of data to convert, please use our executable JAR:
> 
> https://ci.mines-stetienne.fr/sparql-generate/sparql-generate-jena.jar
> 
> 
> 
> [1] RDF Mapping Language. http://rml.io/
> [2] SPARQL-Generate. https://w3id.org/sparql-generate
> 
> 
> --AZ
> 
> On 29/03/2018 21:17, Axel Polleres wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have a question about LSON-LD to RDF conversion:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> I have a JSON-LD question:
>> 
>> I was trying to use JSON-LD to convert nominatim's OSM output to RDF.
>> Essentially I tried adding a simple @context consisting of a simple @vocab namespace to the output of:
>> 
>>  https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?osm_id=1990594&osm_type=R&polygon_geojson=1&format=json <https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/reverse?osm_id=1990594&osm_type=R&polygon_geojson=1&format=json>
>> 
>> in order to JSON-LDify it, arriving at this:
>> ```
>> {
>> "@context":
>> {
>>  "@vocab": "http://data.wu.ac.at/ns/osm_wrapper/"
>> },
>> "licence":"Data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. https:\/\/osm.org\/copyright", "osm_type":"relation","osm_id":"1990594", "lat":"48.2006384", "lon":"16.426895311478","display_name":"Leopoldstadt, Wien, 1020, ?~Vsterreichh","address":{"city_district":"Leopoldstadt","city":"Wien","state":"Wien","postcode":"1020","country":"?~Vsterreich","country_code":"at"},"boundingbox":["48.1650897","48.2363475","16.3674575","16.4984617"],"geojson":{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[16.3674575,48.2251075],[16.3675889,48.2248433],[16.3677014,48.2245416],[16.3678088,48.224167],[16.3678892,48.2236976],[16.3678804,48.2225512],[16.3679638,48.2215549],[16.3681553,48.2206543],[16.368354,48.2200858],[16.3685722,48.2197903],[16.3691878,48.2191461],[16.3696756,48.2187986],[16.3697005,48.2187537],[16.370149,48.2184891],[16.3705928,48.2181828],[16.3730586,48.2162786],[16.3735127,48.2158294],[16.3748503,48.2138968],[16.3750037,48.2136848],[16.3751909,48.213483],[16.375417,48.2132734],[16.3756681,48.213
> 0823],[16.3759558,48.2128966],[16.3762659,48.2127214],[16.3765444,48.2125783],[16.3767933,48.2124669],[16.3770396,48.2123689],[16.3773213,48.2122674],[16.3776787,48.2121566],[16.378046,48.2120631],[16.3785496,48.2119588],[16.3790386,48.2118721],[16.3795538,48.2117967],[16.3801144,48.2117366],[16.3810688,48.2116787],[16.3813019,48.2116741],[16.3815788,48.2116707],[16.3819552,48.2116759],[16.3824376,48.2116916],[16.3829286,48.2117265],[16.383917,48.2118198],[16.3840766,48.2118151],[16.3842505,48.2117642],[16.3844066,48.2116567],[16.3844793,48.211542],[16.3845071,48.2113936],[16.3848946,48.2113547],[16.3849036,48.2114232],[16.3849157,48.2114536],[16.3849313,48.2114786],[16.3849694,48.2115187],[16.3849941,48.2115334],[16.3850638,48.2117766],[16.3850918,48.2118472],[16.3851492,48.2119177],[16.3852455,48.211994],[16.3854257,48.2120648],[16.3860319,48.2122929],[16.3864832,48.2124664],[16.3865617,48.2125735],[16.3866417,48.2126365],[16.3868036,48.2127095],[16.3871675,48.2128421],[16.3875413,
> 48.2129527],[16.3879236,48.2130384],[16.3883691,48.2131175],[16.3888027,48.2131612],[16.3892349,48.2131825],[16.389647,48.213176],[16.3900579,48.2131492],[16.3903953,48.2131111],[16.3908259,48.213035],[16.3915326,48.2128909],[16.3923033,48.2126943],[16.3931358,48.2123726],[16.3937209,48.2120635],[16.3942561,48.2116641],[16.3946581,48.2112488],[16.3956534,48.2097274],[16.3961994,48.2087094],[16.3965158,48.2078611],[16.397082,48.2050464],[16.3973936,48.2044186],[16.3978408,48.2038574],[16.3983736,48.2034024],[16.398797,48.2030885],[16.3994891,48.2027366],[16.4003359,48.202475],[16.4039157,48.201825],[16.404979,48.2015825],[16.4058995,48.2012733],[16.4066582,48.2008865],[16.4073552,48.2003903],[16.4078547,48.1998829],[16.4085445,48.1989871],[16.4097751,48.1972113],[16.4100661,48.1968503],[16.4103604,48.1965465],[16.410865,48.1961194],[16.4118817,48.195365],[16.4134445,48.1943787],[16.4211488,48.1898533],[16.4220931,48.1893474],[16.4250996,48.1881121],[16.4301686,48.1866113],[16.4310992,
> 48.1863419],[16.4386107,48.1842029],[16.451663,48.1803481],[16.4605003,48.1777857],[16.4672414,48.1757468],[16.4677727,48.1755726],[16.4683386,48.175369],[16.4694852,48.174939],[16.4758724,48.1724605],[16.4784741,48.1712739],[16.4790301,48.1710463],[16.4797577,48.1707483],[16.4797281,48.1706977],[16.482739,48.1696294],[16.4838791,48.1691128],[16.4841719,48.1689849],[16.4844916,48.1688524],[16.4854739,48.1684853],[16.4860142,48.1683315],[16.4878399,48.1677592],[16.4898926,48.1671036],[16.4915066,48.1665412],[16.4930469,48.1659298],[16.4946226,48.1652865],[16.4946641,48.1653265],[16.4952282,48.1650897],[16.497085,48.1662737],[16.4984617,48.1671813],[16.4924117,48.1707639],[16.4885141,48.1731901],[16.4850516,48.1753516],[16.4791211,48.1791524],[16.4738454,48.1825645],[16.4507882,48.1978986],[16.4367364,48.2075131],[16.4297298,48.2124399],[16.4258648,48.2151612],[16.4228069,48.2174031],[16.4212773,48.2185006],[16.4178652,48.2209513],[16.4162691,48.2221101],[16.4155324,48.2226691],[16.408
> 6705,48.2278603],[16.4060609,48.2298632],[16.4037597,48.23167],[16.4016921,48.2333369],[16.3999414,48.2348052],[16.39813,48.2363475],[16.3952636,48.2348285],[16.3952714,48.2348175],[16.3900496,48.2320927],[16.386782,48.230365],[16.3879168,48.2293738],[16.3881888,48.2281683],[16.3880589,48.2280809],[16.3879758,48.2279555],[16.3879719,48.2278379],[16.3846792,48.2260733],[16.3833445,48.2256078],[16.3832679,48.2255949],[16.3831822,48.2256026],[16.383103,48.2256355],[16.3830495,48.225681],[16.3813009,48.2279149],[16.3804773,48.2283143],[16.3801322,48.2283067],[16.3798446,48.2284433],[16.379366,48.2286756],[16.3789703,48.2288677],[16.3776716,48.2294971],[16.3775195,48.2295707],[16.3766953,48.2292994],[16.3766339,48.2292792],[16.3762505,48.2291536],[16.3735354,48.2282613],[16.3721614,48.2278334],[16.3709455,48.2266748],[16.3709292,48.2266592],[16.3707049,48.2264456],[16.3704212,48.2261717],[16.3703725,48.2258255],[16.3697574,48.2256151],[16.3693506,48.225683],[16.368439,48.2253741],[16.3674
> 575,48.2251075]]]}}
>> ```
>> 
>> Now when I try to convert this JSON-LD to RDF (either using easyrdf.org [1] or te JSON-LD playground [2] I realize that what I get for the :coordinates property is just flattening all the values of the nested list into separate integer attribute values, in other words (illustrating in TTL syntax), I get back something like:
>> 
>> --------
>> 
>> @prefix : <http://data.wu.ac.at/ns/osm_wrapper/ <http://data.wu.ac.at/ns/osm_wrapper/>> .
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> [ :coordinates 1.636746e+1, 4.822511e+1, 1.636759e+1, 4.822484e+1, 1.636770e+1, 4.822454e+1, 1.636781e+1, 4.822417e+1, 1.636789e+1, 4.822370e+1, 1.636788e+1, 4.822255e+1, 1.636796e+1,
>> 
>>   ...
>> 
>> ]
>> 
>> ------
>> 
>> This is of course not ideal, as it looses the structure of the nested list... is this *seriously* what JSON-LDs model is prescribing? Anyway, can redefine the context to influence that handling of nested list attributes?
>> Or is this simply a bug?
>> 
>> hints/opinions welcome!
>> 
>> Axel
>> 
>> 
>> 1. http://www.easyrdf.org/
>> 2. https://json-ld.org/playground/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Dr. Axel Polleres 
>> url: http://www.polleres.net/  twitter: @AxelPolleres
>> 
>> 
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