N-Triples was primarily developed by Dave Beckett at the University of Bristol and Art Barstow at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
[4] N-Triples was designed to be a simpler format than Notation3 and Turtle, and therefore easier for software to parse and generate.
This makes it a very convenient format to provide "model answers" for RDF test suites.
Literals are represented as printable ASCII strings (with backslash escapes),[5] delimited with double-quote characters, and optionally suffixed with a language or datatype indicator.
The related N-Quads superset extends N-Triples with an optional context value at the fourth position.