diff --git a/src/main/java/edu/tamu/iiif/service/AbstractManifestService.java b/src/main/java/edu/tamu/iiif/service/AbstractManifestService.java
index 6728c18..ba53ad2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/edu/tamu/iiif/service/AbstractManifestService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/edu/tamu/iiif/service/AbstractManifestService.java
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URLDecoder;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -169,6 +171,7 @@ protected Model getRdfModel(String url) throws NotFoundException {
 
     private String getRdf(String url) throws NotFoundException {
         try {
+            url = URLDecoder.decode(url, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
             if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
                 logger.info("Requesting RDF for {}", url);
             }