Ability to run conversion from the URL of an RDF file

[tfrancart]

In addition to setting the path to a local or the URL of a SPARQL endpoint, it would be very nice to be able to point to the URL of a remote RDF file as the data source for site generation.
This would provide the ability to chain services that generate RDF data on the fly with a site generation script.

[white-gecko]

Thank you for sharing this use case with us. I think for now the best possibility is to setup a SPARQL endpoint in such chains, e.g. as we do it in the mmoon setup: https://github.com/MMoOn-Project/JekyllPage/blob/f99089bfa0c2394d2e06d272b88f083db0c7ad4a/.travis.yml#L20

[tfrancart]

Thanks but unfortunately I can't do this. I run SKOS Play which contains a spreadsheet-2-rdf converter (http://labs.sparna.fr/skos-play/convert). It can convert online spreadsheets, typically Google spreadsheet. I am thinking of creating an API for such conversion, which would give the ability to call http://labs.sparna.fr/skos-play/api/convert?input= and that would return the RDF resulting from the conversion; and this is the kind of URL I would like to use as an input.

So you see the process : edit a spreadsheet online, then regenerate a website by passing the converter URL to jekyll-rdf. Basically this gives a quick and accessible way to manually create RDF data, and jekyll-rdf provides the way to turn that data into a website.

[white-gecko]

Cool, that sounds great. I've added it to our next mile-stone (which is no guarantee that it will not be moved to any future milestone).