Convert jsonld to xml-rdf

[stschiff]

It might be better for general linked data application of our vocabulary file (terms.rdf.json) would also be provided in XML (file ending .rdf). This can be automatically rendered nicely in Firefox and seems to be more standard. So I think we should write a short script to convert, and than have Travis convert it automatically within this repo, and then push the xml one instead of the json one to the website.

[stschiff]

I found this python package which can do it: https://rdflib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/. I will write a little script and test.

[stschiff]

Having looked more into this, I'm not anymore sure whether this is necessary. Firefox can't do any magic. The super-cool rendering of https://cldf.clld.org/v1.0/terms.rdf seems to be far from trivial. I've simply copied the rdf file into my desktop and tried viewing it with Firefox and that doesn't work. They have some fancy stylesheet and xml conversion foo going on in the background. I might ask Robert about it, but for now it seems simpler to just keep terms.rdf.json in our case and write a little python script that parses that and creates some sort of HTML table that we can put on our webpage at some point.

[nevrome]

An important side effect of conversion to .rdf etc. is a check for syntactic correctness. So if you have a working script I think we should still make it part of the CI pipeline even if we don't want to keep the result.

[stschiff]

Yes, indeed.

[stschiff]

Talked to Robert. It's quite a nightmare to have Firefox actually rendering this rdf file properly. It only works in their case with extensive XSLT instructions, which I will not learn how to do. So I will roll back this issue to simply wanting to validate the RDF file via a quick python script, as @nevrome suggested.

[stschiff]

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