Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language

Turtle is a serialisation format for RDF (Resource Description Framework) graphs. It was designed by Dave Beckett and Tony Sholtis as an extension of the minimal N-Triples format, bringing in features from Tim Berners-Lee's Notation 3 (N3) language. Unlike N3, Turtle doesn't go beyond RDF's graph model. The SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language uses a very similar format to Turtle for its graph patterns. RDF can refer to: Radical Dance Faction a band from the UK. Radio direction finder, a device for finding the direction to a radio source. ... Sir Tim Berners-Lee Sir Tim (Timothy John) Berners-Lee, KBE (TimBL or TBL) (b. ... Notation 3, or N3 as it is more commonly known, is a shorthand non-XML serialization of Resource Description Framework models, designed with human-readability in mind: N3 is much more compact and readable than XML RDF notation. ... SPARQL (recursively, SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) is a Semantic Web recommendation presently (as of 2005) undergoing standardization by the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG) of the World Wide Web Consortium. ...

Turtle has no official status with any standards organization, but has become popular amongst Semantic Web developers as a human-friendly alternative to RDF/XML. A significant proportion of RDF toolkits include Turtle parsing/serialising capability, for example Redland, Jena and RDFLib. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Redland Shire is in the south east of Queensland, spread along the southern coast of Moreton Bay covering of 539 square kilometres. ... Jena is a town in central Germany on the River Saale. ... RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information. ...

Example

 @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> . @prefix ex: <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/> . <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar> dc:title "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" ; ex:editor [ ex:fullname "Dave Beckett"; ex:homePage <http://purl.org/net/dajobe/> ] . 

(This example would also be valid Notation 3) Notation 3, or N3 as it is more commonly known, is a shorthand non-XML serialization of Resource Description Framework models, designed with human-readability in mind: N3 is much more compact and readable than XML RDF notation. ...

The mime type of Turtle is application/x-turtle (if registered, application/turtle will be sought). Charset parameters on the mime type are forbidden, the content encoding of Turtle content is always UTF-8.

Turtles all the way down Turtles all the way down refers to an infinite regression myth about the nature of the universe (see Cosmology). ...

Turtle Specification