Re: JSON-LD to RDF question...

> On Mar 30, 2018, at 1:29 AM, 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?).

Indeed, it is impossible to come up with a completely generic JSON into specific RDF, and sometimes some intermediate programming step is required. IMHO, the key is to focus on specific use cases important to the community and attempt to solve them in the most generic way possible.

Gregg

> 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
>> 
>> 
> 
>

Received on Friday, 30 March 2018 18:12:05 UTC