Els de Vleeschauwer, Arthur Vercruysse, Ben De Meester, and Pieter Colpaert: "RML Playground: Online Editing, Validation, and Execution for the RDF Mapping Language", KGCW 2026: Seventh International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Construction, co-located with ESWC 2026 (2026).

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Abstract

The RDF Mapping Language has seen various extensions over the years and was overhauled and modularized by the W3C KGC Community Group. However, this variety of RML versions and varying feature support by different mapping engines makes it hard for users to know how to create valid mapping rules. We demonstrate RML Playground: a Web application that guides users to edit, validate, and execute mapping rules for configurable RML versions and mapping engines. The RML Playground offers a text editor with real-time RDF syntax and SHACL shape validation and autocompletion, powered by the Semantic Web Language Server; a knowledge graph construction pipeline using a configurable mapping engine; and curated example mapping rules illustrating the targeted RML version. RML Playground currently has two deployed instances: the latest KGC Community RML version with Burp as mapping engine, and the RML.io-published RML version with RMLMapper as mapping engine. Completely automated using the specifications' ontology and shape descriptions, the RML Playground is easily extensible and maintainable to new RML versions and extensions.