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Resource Description Framework

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Also known as RDF

data model for describing resources on the Web

Key facts

Filename extension
.ttl
Internet media type
text/turtle
Developed by
World Wide Web Consortium
Standard
RDF 1.1 Turtle: Terse RDF Triple Language January 9, 2014 ; 12 years ago ( 2014-01-09 )
Open format
Yes

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data. It was originally designed as a data model for metadata by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It provides a variety of syntax notations and formats, of which the most widely used is Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language).

RDF is a directed graph composed of triple statements. An RDF graph statement is represented by: (1) a node for the subject, (2) an arc from subject to object, representing a predicate, and (3) a node for the object. Each of these parts can be identified by a Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI). An object can also be a literal value. This simple, flexible data model has a lot of expressive power to represent complex situations, relationships, and other things of interest, while also being appropriately abstract.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Resource Description Framework” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.