diff --git a/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/SparqlQueryServletOldTest.java b/webapp/test/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/SparqlQueryServletOldTest.java
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+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+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 com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model;
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.ModelFactory;
+
+public class SparqlQueryServletOldTest {
+
+ @Test
+ public void testJSONLD() throws JSONLDProcessingError {
+ //just check if we can use JSONLD-JAVA
+
+ final String turtle = "@prefix const: .\n"
+ + "@prefix xsd: .\n"
+ + " const:code \"123\" .\n"
+ + " const:code \"ABC\"^^xsd:string .\n";
+
+ final List