Filename extension .n3 Developed by Tim Berners-Lee Container for RDF data | Internet media type text/n3;charset=utf-8 Type of format semantic web Standard Specification | |
Notation3, 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. A formalization of the logic underlying N3 was published by Berners-Lee and others in 2008.
N3 has several features that go beyond a serialization for RDF models, such as support for RDF-based rules. Turtle is a simplified, RDF-only subset of N3.
Examples
This RDF model in standard XML notation
may be written in Notation 3 like this:
(This example would also be valid Turtle.)
References
Notation3 Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA