Turtle: Terse RDF Triple Language

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Turtle Terse RDF Triple Language

• Dave Beckett

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Goals

• Textual format based on N-Triples
• Adding useful bits from Notation3
• Complete RDF subset
• Non-goal good XML support

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N-Triples to Turtle

• Whitespace restrictions removed
• Content-encoding is UTF-8
• Added _at_prefix, QNames, ,, , ., ,
  a, ()
• MIME type application/x-turtle(yes I know, dont
  ask)

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Example
_at_prefix rdf lthttp//www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syn
tax-nsgt . _at_prefix dc lthttp//purl.org/dc/element
s/1.1/gt . _at_prefix ex lthttp//example.org/stuff/1.
0/gt . lthttp//www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammargt
dctitle "RDF/XML Syntax Specification
(Revised)" exeditor exfullname "Dave
Beckett" exhomePage lthttp//purl.org/net/daj
obe/gt .
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Status and Issues

• Status had good feedback
• I need to know is it done?
• Versioning? _at_version YYYY-MM-DD
• Track N3 changes
• Possible next steps
• W3C member submission (was Note)
• SWBP input / work

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Turtle document
http//ilrt.org/discovery/2004/01/turtle/