Licensing and citation

• The Jelly Protocol Buffers and gRPC definitions are licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
• The documentation of Jelly (this website) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
• The Jelly-JVM implementation is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
• The pyjelly implementation is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.
• The jelly-cli command-line tool is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Jelly maintainer

The entire Jelly tool stack is currently maintained by NeverBlink.

The Jelly protocol and Jelly-JVM were originally created by Piotr Sowiński (GitHub).

Attribution / citation

If you use Jelly in your research, please cite the most recent paper about it:

Sowiński, P., Bogacka, K., Danilenka, A., Kozlov, N. (2025). Jelly: a fast and convenient RDF serialization format. In arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11298. DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.11298

Or use this BibTeX entry:

@article{sowinski2025jelly,
  title = {Jelly: a fast and convenient RDF serialization format},
  author = {Sowi{\'n}ski, Piotr and Bogacka, Karolina and Danilenka, Anastasiya and Kozlov, Nikita},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.11298},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2506.11298},
}

You can also check out an older paper that describes an earlier version of the Jelly protocol: Efficient RDF streaming for the edge-cloud continuum.

See also

• Contributing to Jelly
• Applications using Jelly
• Projects and funding