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 format is being developed by Tim Berners-Lee and others from the Semantic Web community.

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Examples

This RDF model in standard XML notation

    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"

    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

  

    Tony Benn

    Wikipedia

  

may be written in Notation 3 like this:

@prefix dc: .



  dc:title "Tony Benn";

  dc:publisher "Wikipedia".

(This example would also be valid Turtle.)

External links

★ Notation 3 Specification on ''W3C Design Issues'' by Tim Berners-Lee

★ Notation 3 Primer: ''Getting into RDF & Semantic Web using N3''

★ A Rough Guide to Notation3

★ RDF for "Little Languages"