First Public Working Draft: YAML-LD 1.0

The JSON-LD Working Group published today a First Public Working Draft of YAML-LD 1.0. [JSON-LD11] is a JSON-based format to serialize Linked Data. In recent years, [YAML] has emerged as a more concise format to represent information that had previously been serialized as [JSON], including API specifications, data schemas, and Linked Data.

This document defines YAML-LD as a set of conventions on top of YAML which specify how to serialize Linked Data [LINKED-DATA] as [YAML] based on JSON-LD syntax, semantics, and APIs.

Since YAML is more expressive than JSON, both in the available data types and in the document structure (see [RFC9512]), this document identifies constraints on YAML such that any YAML-LD document can be represented in JSON-LD.