diff --git a/lib/maintainers.nix b/lib/maintainers.nix
index d75cbec8d517..aca69cc85f2f 100644
--- a/lib/maintainers.nix
+++ b/lib/maintainers.nix
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
   andsild = "Anders Sildnes <andsild@gmail.com>";
   aneeshusa = "Aneesh Agrawal <aneeshusa@gmail.com>";
   antono = "Antono Vasiljev <self@antono.info>";
+  apeschar = "Albert Peschar <albert@peschar.net>";
   apeyroux = "Alexandre Peyroux <alex@px.io>";
   ardumont = "Antoine R. Dumont <eniotna.t@gmail.com>";
   aristid = "Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb@gmail.com>";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/PyLD/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/PyLD/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e4edaf83a25c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/PyLD/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchPypi, buildPythonPackage, fetchFromGitHub, python, gnugrep }:
+
+let
+
+  json-ld = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "json-ld";
+    repo = "json-ld.org";
+    rev = "843a70e4523d7cd2a4d3f5325586e726eb1b123f";
+    sha256 = "05j0nq6vafclyypxjj30iw898ig0m32nvz0rjdlslx6lawkiwb2a";
+  };
+
+  normalization = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "json-ld";
+    repo = "normalization";
+    rev = "aceeaf224b64d6880189d795bd99c3ffadb5d79e";
+    sha256 = "125q5rllfm8vg9mz8hn7bhvhv2vqpd86kx2kxlk84smh33l8kbyl";
+  };
+
+in
+
+buildPythonPackage rec {
+  pname = "PyLD";
+  version = "0.7.2";
+  name = "${pname}-${version}";
+
+  src = fetchFromGitHub {
+    owner = "digitalbazaar";
+    repo = "pyld";
+    rev = "652473f828e9a396d4c1db9addbd294fb7db1797";
+    sha256 = "1bmpz4s6j7by6l45wwxy7dn7hmrhxc26kbx2hbfy41x29vbjg6j9";
+  };
+
+  # Unfortunately PyLD does not pass all testcases in the JSON-LD corpus. We
+  # check for at least a minimum amount of successful tests so we know it's not
+  # getting worse, at least.
+  checkPhase = ''
+    ok_min=401
+
+    if ! ${python.interpreter} tests/runtests.py -d ${json-ld}/test-suite 2>&1 | tee test.out; then
+      ok_count=$(${gnugrep}/bin/grep -F '... ok' test.out | wc -l)
+      if [[ $ok_count -lt $ok_min ]]; then
+        echo "Less than $ok_min tests passed ($ok_count). Failing the build."
+        exit 1
+      fi
+    fi
+
+    ${python.interpreter} tests/runtests.py -d ${normalization}/tests
+  '';
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "Python implementation of the JSON-LD API";
+    homepage = "https://github.com/digitalbazaar/pyld";
+    license = licenses.bsd3;
+    maintainers = with maintainers; [ apeschar ];
+  };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
index d60d27070707..ffd3f6c8c5dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/python-packages.nix
@@ -5087,6 +5087,8 @@ in {
     };
   };
 
+  PyLD = callPackage ../development/python-modules/PyLD { };
+
   python-jose = callPackage ../development/python-modules/python-jose {};
 
   pyhepmc = buildPythonPackage rec {