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Converting JSON-LD schema.org RDF to other vocabularies

So that we can use tools designed around those vocabularies.

Last month I wrote about how we can treat the growing amount of JSON-LD in the world as RDF. By “treat” I mean “query it with SPARQL and use it with the wide choice of RDF application development tools out there”. While I did demonstrate that JSON-LD does just fine with URIs from outside of the schema.org vocabulary, the vast majority of JSON-LD out there uses schema.org.

Exploring JSON-LD

And of course, querying it with SPARQL.

I paid little attention to JSON-LD until recently. I just thought of it as another RDF serialization format that, because it’s valid JSON, had more appeal to people normally uninterested in RDF. Dan Brickley’s December tweet that “JSON-LD is much more widely used than Turtle” inspired me to look a little harder at the JSON-LD ecosystem, and I found a lot of great things. To summarize: the amount of JSON-LD data out there is exploding, and we can query it with SPARQL, so…