YAMAML: An Application Profile Based Lightweight RDF Mapping Language.

YAMA Mapping Language (YAMAML) is a lightweight mapping language for generating RDF. YAMAML is based on Yet Another Metadata Application Profiles (YAMA). YAMA is an extensible intermediary application profile authoring format for generating application profile expressions. Application profiles are a combination of vocabularies, which are mixed and matched from different namespaces and optimized for a particular local application. YAMA is based on Description Set Profiles (DSP), a Dublin Core Application Profiles constraint language. YAMA is implemented on YAML, one of the most human-readable data serialization formats. As a superset of JSON, YAML is highly interoperable and has parsers and emitters in all major programming languages. It adapts the basic application profile elements from YAMA and is designed as a simplified markup language to map non-RDF data structures to RDF and generate corresponding RDF based on the application profile. It is proposed as an intermediary format for generating RDF, but not as an RDF representation syntax. The authors demonstrate the capability of YAMAML by developing a basic specification and proof of concept implementations.