diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroHttpServlet.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroHttpServlet.java
index dd25369b9..df1e29eee 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroHttpServlet.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroHttpServlet.java
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ public class VitroHttpServlet extends HttpServlet {
 	public final static String HTML_MIMETYPE = "text/html";
 
 	public final static String RDFXML_MIMETYPE = "application/rdf+xml";
+    public final static String JSON_MIMETYPE = "application/json";
 	public final static String N3_MIMETYPE = "text/n3"; // unofficial and unregistered
 	public final static String TTL_MIMETYPE = "text/turtle"; // unofficial and unregistered
 
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java
index 71eeaf006..1530aaeee 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/freemarker/FreemarkerHttpServlet.java
@@ -20,10 +20,14 @@ import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 
+import com.github.jsonldjava.core.JSONLD;
+import com.github.jsonldjava.core.JSONLDProcessingError;
+import com.github.jsonldjava.impl.JenaRDFParser;
+import com.github.jsonldjava.utils.JSONUtils;
+
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.permissions.SimplePermission;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.policy.PolicyHelper;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.Actions;
-import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.requestedAction.ifaces.RequiresActions;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.ApplicationBean;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.DisplayMessage;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet;
@@ -39,6 +43,7 @@ import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.freemarker.responsevalues.Tem
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.email.FreemarkerEmailFactory;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.email.FreemarkerEmailMessage;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.freemarker.config.FreemarkerConfiguration;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.rdfservice.RDFServiceException;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.templatemodels.Tags;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.templatemodels.User;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.web.templatemodels.menu.MainMenu;
@@ -308,17 +313,29 @@ public class FreemarkerHttpServlet extends VitroHttpServlet  {
         
         String mediaType = values.getContentType().getMediaType();
         response.setContentType(mediaType);
-        
-        String format = ""; 
-        if ( RDFXML_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)) {
-            format = "RDF/XML";
-        } else if( N3_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)) {
-            format = "N3";
-        } else if ( TTL_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)) {
-            format ="TTL";
+                
+        if (   JSON_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)){
+            //json-ld is not supported by jena v2.6.4
+            try {   
+                JenaRDFParser parser = new JenaRDFParser();
+                Object json = JSONLD.fromRDF( values.getModel() , parser);
+                JSONUtils.write(response.getWriter(), json);
+            } catch (JSONLDProcessingError e) {
+               throw new IOException("Could not convert from Jena model to JSON-LD", e);
+            }           
+        }else{
+            String format = "";
+            if ( RDFXML_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)) {
+                format = "RDF/XML";
+            } else if( N3_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)) {
+                format = "N3";
+            } else if ( TTL_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)) {
+                format ="TTL";
+            }
+            values.getModel().write( response.getOutputStream(), format );
         }
         
-        values.getModel().write( response.getOutputStream(), format );      
+              
     }
 
     protected void doException(VitroRequest vreq, HttpServletResponse response, 
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualController.java
index 2e632159f..8c10623b2 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualController.java
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ public class IndividualController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
 		map.put(HTML_MIMETYPE, 0.5f);
 		map.put(XHTML_MIMETYPE, 0.5f);
 		map.put("application/xml", 0.5f);
+        map.put(JSON_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
+		map.put(RDFXML_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
 		map.put(RDFXML_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
 		map.put(N3_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
 		map.put(TTL_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualRequestAnalyzer.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualRequestAnalyzer.java
index 3b3c6d091..d89766164 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualRequestAnalyzer.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/individual/IndividualRequestAnalyzer.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.individual;
 import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet.N3_MIMETYPE;
 import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet.RDFXML_MIMETYPE;
 import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet.TTL_MIMETYPE;
+import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet.JSON_MIMETYPE;
 
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
@@ -117,7 +118,9 @@ public class IndividualRequestAnalyzer {
 				return "/individual/" + m.group(1) + "/" + m.group(1) + ".n3";
 			} else if (TTL_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)) {
 				return "/individual/" + m.group(1) + "/" + m.group(1) + ".ttl";
-			}
+			} else if (JSON_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)){
+                return "/individual/" + m.group(1) + "/" + m.group(1) + ".jsonld";
+            }
 		}
 		// or redirect to the canonical URL for HTML representation.
 		return "/display/" + m.group(1);
@@ -244,7 +247,10 @@ public class IndividualRequestAnalyzer {
 		if (formatParam.contains("ttl")) {
 			return ContentType.TURTLE;
 		}
-
+        if (formatParam.contains("jsonld") || formatParam.contains("json")){
+            return ContentType.JSON;
+        }
+                
 		/*
 		 * Check for parts of URL that indicate request for RDF. Examples:
 		 * http://vivo.cornell.edu/individual/n23/n23.rdf