YAML-LD implementation for Python

A Python implementation for handling YAML-LD documents.

python-yaml-ld is a wrapper on top of digitalbazaar/pyld.

What is YAML-LD?

YAML-LD is a YAML-based serialization for Linked Data, drawing inspiration from JSON-LD. It aims to bring the ease of YAML along with the structured linked data principles of JSON-LD. The YAML-LD specification provides detailed information on the structure and usage of YAML-LD.

What does python-yaml-ld provide?

Python APIpyld CLI

import yaml_ld provides you with the following functions to operate on ＊-LD documents:

• load_document()

  ---

  Load an ＊-LD document.

• expand()

  ---

  Expand a ＊-LD document.

• compact()

  ---

  Compact a ＊-LD document.

• flatten()

  ---

  Flatten a ＊-LD document.

• to_rdf()

  ---

  Convert a ＊-LD document to RDF.

• from_rdf()

  ---

  Convert a RDF dataset to a ＊-LD document.

• frame()

  ---

  Frame a ＊-LD document.

pip install yaml-ld makes pyld executable available, which exposes the functionality of pyld library with additions provided by python-yaml-ld.

• pyld get

  ---

  Load an ＊-LD document.

• pyld expand

  ---

  Expand a ＊-LD document.

• pyld compact

  ---

  Compact a ＊-LD document.

• pyld flatten

  ---

  Flatten a ＊-LD document.

• pyld to-rdf

  ---

  Convert a ＊-LD document to RDF.

• pyld from-rdf

  ---

  Convert a RDF dataset to a ＊-LD document.