rdf2json

Reads RDF N-Triple/N-Quads that are sorted by subject and append a JSON/JSON-LD document per line in a designated output file.

Usage: rdf2json [options] --input filename.nt --output filename.json

Preliminaries

RDF N-Triples/N-Quads need to be sorted by subject, so that it is possible to output JSON/JSON-LD documents on-the-fly, without holding the entire input in memory or falling back to time consuming file-pointer seek operations.

Both RDF formats can be sorted on Mac OS X and Linux using the following shell command:

sort -k 1,1 UNSORTED.EXT > SORTED.EXT

Required options

-i, --input FILE: Input file for the conversion; either RDF N-Triples or N-Quads.
-o, --output FILE: Output file to which JSON-LD/JSON is appended.

Options

-m, --minimize: Minimize JSON-LD to plain (semantically untyped) JSON.
-n, --namespace [NAMESPACE]: Alternative name for JSON-LD's "@id" key; replaces it; turns on --minimize
-p, --prefix [PREFIX]: Prefix that should be removed from keys; requires --minimize.
-t, --triples: Input file is in RDF N-Triples format.
-q, --quads: Input file is in RDF N-Quads format.

Common options

-s, --silent: Do not output summary statistics.
-h, --help: Show this message.

JSON output (`--minimize` option)

replaces "@id" keys with an alternative name if the --namespace option is present
keys that start with the prefix of --prefix are shortened (prefix is removed)
array contents are "lifted up", i.e. for each entry of the array:
- hashes with a "@value" key are replaced by the value of "@value", or else
- hashes with a "@id" key are replaced by the value of "@id", or else
- the array value is left unchanged
removes all "@type" key/value pairs

Installation

gem install rdf2json

Project home page

Information on the source tree, documentation, examples, issues and how to contribute, see

http://github.com/joejimbo/rdf2json

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