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 e3cb914a8..6a39a184f 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroHttpServlet.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/VitroHttpServlet.java
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ public class VitroHttpServlet extends HttpServlet implements MultipartRequestWra
 
 	public final static String RDFXML_MIMETYPE = "application/rdf+xml";
     public final static String JSON_MIMETYPE = "application/json";
+    public final static String JSON_LD_MIMETYPE = "application/ld+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/api/SparqlQueryApiController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/SparqlQueryApiController.java
index e1d938c92..cd6e92c6d 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/SparqlQueryApiController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/SparqlQueryApiController.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ public class SparqlQueryApiController extends VitroApiServlet {
 		} catch (NotAcceptableException | AcceptHeaderParsingException e) {
 			sendShortResponse(SC_NOT_ACCEPTABLE,
 					"The accept header does not include any "
-							+ "available content type.", e, resp);
+							+ "available content type: " + e.getMessage(), resp);
 		} catch (RDFServiceException e) {
 			sendShortResponse(SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
 					"Problem executing the query.", e, resp);
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/RdfResultMediaType.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/RdfResultMediaType.java
index f2f98b76d..72d744ce4 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/RdfResultMediaType.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/RdfResultMediaType.java
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ public enum RdfResultMediaType {
 
 	TTL("text/turtle", false, "N3", "TTL"),
 
-	JSON("application/json", false, "N3", "JSON");
+	JSON("application/json", false, "N3", "JSON"),
+	
+	JSON_LD("application/ld+json", false, "N3", "JSON");
 
 	// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 	// Keep a map of content types, for easy conversion back and forth
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/SparqlQueryApiRdfProducer.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/SparqlQueryApiRdfProducer.java
index 939428da4..57b9a2b9a 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/SparqlQueryApiRdfProducer.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/api/sparqlquery/SparqlQueryApiRdfProducer.java
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ abstract class SparqlQueryApiRdfProducer extends SparqlQueryApiExecutor {
 
 		if (mediaType.isNativeFormat()) {
 			IOUtils.copy(rawResult, out);
-		} else if (mediaType == RdfResultMediaType.JSON) {
+		} else if (mediaType.getJenaResponseFormat().equals("JSON")) {
 			// JSON-LD is a special case, since jena 2.6.4 doesn't support it.
 			try {
 				JenaRDFParser parser = new JenaRDFParser();
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 e1d4385c8..560dcb85b 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
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ public class FreemarkerHttpServlet extends VitroHttpServlet  {
         String mediaType = values.getContentType().getMediaType();
         response.setContentType(mediaType);
                 
-        if (   JSON_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)){
+        if ( JSON_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType) || JSON_LD_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)){
             //json-ld is not supported by jena v2.6.4
             try {   
                 JenaRDFParser parser = new JenaRDFParser();
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 cab2a0a23..4c14f4a9c 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
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ public class IndividualController extends FreemarkerHttpServlet {
 		map.put(XHTML_MIMETYPE, 0.5f);
 		map.put("application/xml", 0.5f);
         map.put(JSON_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
+        map.put(JSON_LD_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
 		map.put(RDFXML_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
 		map.put(RDFXML_MIMETYPE, 1.0f);
 		map.put(N3_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 24c69d358..25079fc23 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
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@
 
 package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.individual;
 
+import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet.JSON_LD_MIMETYPE;
+import static edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroHttpServlet.JSON_MIMETYPE;
 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;
@@ -118,7 +119,7 @@ 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)){
+			} else if (JSON_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType) || JSON_LD_MIMETYPE.equals(mediaType)){
                 return "/individual/" + m.group(1) + "/" + m.group(1) + ".jsonld";
             }
 		}
@@ -145,7 +146,8 @@ public class IndividualRequestAnalyzer {
 					IndividualController.ACCEPTED_CONTENT_TYPES);
 	
 			if (RDFXML_MIMETYPE.equals(ctStr) || N3_MIMETYPE.equals(ctStr)
-					|| TTL_MIMETYPE.equals(ctStr) || JSON_MIMETYPE.equals(ctStr)) {
+					|| TTL_MIMETYPE.equals(ctStr) || JSON_MIMETYPE.equals(ctStr)
+					|| JSON_LD_MIMETYPE.equals(ctStr)) {
 				return new ContentType(ctStr);
 			}
 		} catch (Throwable th) {
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/ContentType.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/ContentType.java
index 02693d654..42f25f521 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/ContentType.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/web/ContentType.java
@@ -151,6 +151,12 @@ public class ContentType implements Serializable {
  public static final ContentType JSON =
      new ContentType("application/json;" + DEFAULT_CHARSET).lock();
 
+ /**
+  * A ContentType constant that describes the JSON-LD content type.
+  */
+ public static final ContentType JSON_LD =
+		 new ContentType("application/ld+json;" + DEFAULT_CHARSET).lock();
+ 
  /**
   * A ContentType constant that describes the Javascript content type.
   */