diff --git a/packages/core/lib/datasources/MemoryDatasource.js b/packages/core/lib/datasources/MemoryDatasource.js
index 3dfe708a..da540e72 100644
--- a/packages/core/lib/datasources/MemoryDatasource.js
+++ b/packages/core/lib/datasources/MemoryDatasource.js
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ class MemoryDatasource extends Datasource {
   constructor(options) {
     let supportedFeatureList = ['quadPattern', 'triplePattern', 'limit', 'offset', 'totalCount'];
     super(options, supportedFeatureList);
+    if (options.file) {
+      if (!options.file.startsWith('file://') && !options.file.startsWith('http://') && !options.file.startsWith('https://'))
+        options.file = `file://${options.file}`;
+    }
+
+    this._url = options && (options.url || options.file);
   }
 
   // Prepares the datasource for querying
diff --git a/packages/datasource-jsonld/lib/datasources/JsonLdDatasource.js b/packages/datasource-jsonld/lib/datasources/JsonLdDatasource.js
index 7635cd40..9b0129fb 100644
--- a/packages/datasource-jsonld/lib/datasources/JsonLdDatasource.js
+++ b/packages/datasource-jsonld/lib/datasources/JsonLdDatasource.js
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ let ACCEPT = 'application/ld+json;q=1.0,application/json;q=0.7';
 class JsonLdDatasource extends MemoryDatasource {
   constructor(options) {
     super(options);
-    this._url = options && (options.url || options.file);
   }
 
   // Retrieves all quads from the document