1. Turtle: Terse RDF Triple Language
Dave Beckett

2. Goals Textual format based on N-Triples
Adding useful bits from Notation3
Complete RDF subset
Non-goal: good XML support

3. N-Triples to Turtle Whitespace restrictions removed
Content-encoding is UTF-8
QNames, “,”, “;”, “.”, “[]”, “a”, “()”
MIME type application/x-turtle (yes I know, don’t ask)

4. Example
@prefix rdf: < .
@prefix dc: < .
@prefix ex: < .
<
dc:title "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" ;
ex:editor [
ex:fullname "Dave Beckett";
ex:homePage <
] .

5. Status and Issues Status: had good feedback
I need to know: is it done?
YYYY-MM-DD
Track N3 changes
Possible next steps:
W3C member submission (was Note)
SWBP input / work

6. Turtle document