JSON-LD in Jena RIOT?

Question

I got Jena 2.12.1 (2014-10-02) from the Apache Jena Releases page. It's supposed to have JSON-LD support, according to Reading and Writing RDF in Apache Jena . But when I try to use riot with an output format of JSON-LD, I get an error (and the same happens for variants in capitalization, hyphenation, etc.):

riot --out=JSON-LD NIF-example2.ttl

   Turtle
   N-Quads
   N-Triples
   TriG
   RDF_THRIFT
Not recognized as an streaming RDF language : 'JSON-LD'

How can I write in JSON-LD?

Answer 1

It has correctly identified JSON-LD. JSON-LD is not a streaming output language (the writer needs all the data available before calling the jsonld-java code) and riot is a streaming parser (it can cope with files of any size) and needs to write in a streaming fashion.

The tool to read in the data into memory and write it out is rdfcat .

rdfcat -out JSONLD NIF-example2.ttl

Answer 2

More recent RIOT versions (since late 2015) support JSONLD. However, I don't see a way to give it a context

• there's no option for that

• I tried providing a context inside the jsonld file like this (see https://gist.github.com/VladimirAlexiev/6ab60b6a0e1ab32a2f3980c57b005d8f ):

  {"@context":"gvp-context.jsonld", "@graph":[...]}

But it's ignored and it makes its own context.