autoformatter for the data file

[elf-pavlik]

I mentioned during today's practicioners call, that while there are a lot of records in the catalog, they are hardly interlinked, at least the subset used by solid efforts. I want to add some basic UI to solid efforts that will allow me to start creating those relations between recods. To keep it simple I would envision this workflow:

• load data from this repo catalog-data.ttl into RDF/JS Dataset (LDO dataset to be more specific)
• use UI to modify the dataset and add bunch of relations
• dump modified RDF/JS Dataset into a file, possibly as raw N-Triples
• run autoformatter before commiting it
• make PR with updated catalog-data.ttl

@jeff-zucker @jeswr can you think of a simple autoformater that would take for example a raw N-Triples and format it into a Turtle for catalog-data.ttl?

EDIT In my UI I would probably use this element and pre-filter values by the type accepted by given property https://dev.vuetifyjs.com/en/components/autocompletes/#usage

[elf-pavlik]

To what degree do we want to control formatting or even grouping and sorting in the data file?

I think JSON-LD with compacting and framing gives the higher level of control. Also once handled as JSON it can be rather easily grouped and ordered. With Turtle I think we pretty much can just use specific prefix map and use one specific serializer to keep it more or less consistent.

For maximum human readability we could even use YAML-LD as source in repo and alias @id, @type and terms used in shapes, for example with a simple context we get:

id: cdata:SolidCommunityDotNet
type: Service
name: solidcommunity.net
subType: GeneralPurposePodService
serviceEndpoint: https://solidcommunity.net
softwareStackIncludes:
- cdata:Pivot
- cdata:SolidOS
status: Production
provider: cdata:ODI
description: solidcommunity.net is a public Solid server maintained by the Open Data Institute.

from

cdata:SolidCommunityDotNet a ex:Service ;
  ex:name "solidcommunity.net" ;
  ex:subType con:GeneralPurposePodService ;
  ex:serviceEndpoint <https://solidcommunity.net> ;
  ex:softwareStackIncludes cdata:Pivot, cdata:SolidOS ;
  ex:status con:Production ;
  ex:provider cdata:ODI ;
  ex:description "solidcommunity.net is a public Solid server maintained by the Open Data Institute." .

and we have full control over framing, grouping and ordering.