Turtle (syntax)

In computing, Terse RDF Triple Language (Turtle) is a syntax and file format for expressing data in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model.

RDF represents information using semantic triples, which comprise a subject, predicate, and object.

For example, information about Huckleberry Finn could be expressed as: Turtle was defined by Dave Beckett as a subset of Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly's Notation3 (N3) language, and a superset of the minimal N-Triples format.

[1] A significant proportion of RDF toolkits include Turtle parsing and serializing capability.

[2] TriG RDF syntax extends Turtle with support for named graphs.