Resource Description Framework
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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.