Structured Data & Schema· Topic 04 · Definition

Turtle

A compact text syntax for RDF: one fact per line, written as subject, predicate, object.

Turtle (Terse RDF Triple Language) writes knowledge-graph facts as short readable lines rather than nested JSON or XML. Each line states one relationship, so a graph of facts about your organisation, products and people can be read and diffed by a person as well as a machine. It is the syntax most semantic-web tooling reads and writes by default.

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Structured Data & SchemaN3 (Notation3)Turtle plus rules: an RDF syntax that can also say if this, then that, so a reasoner can derive facts you never wrote down.Structured Data & SchemaKnowledge GraphsStructured representations of entities and relationships.Structured Data & SchemaJSON-LDJavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data - the preferred format for embedding schema.org markup.
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