Turtle - Data notation

Turtle is a data notation created in 2011.

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Terse RDF Triple Language (Turtle) is a syntax and file format for expressing data in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model. Turtle syntax is similar to that of SPARQL, an RDF query language. RDF represents information using semantic triples, which comprise a subject, predicate, and object. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: dataNotation
There are at least 137 Turtle repos on GitHub
Turtle LSP implementation
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Turtle
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Turtle
See also: (4 related languages) RDF, SPARQL, XML, UTF-8
3 PLDB concepts link to Turtle: N-Triples, Notation3, TriG syntax

Example from the web:

@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
@prefix ex: <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/> .

<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar>
  dc:title "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" ;
  ex:editor [
    ex:fullname "Dave Beckett";
    ex:homePage <http://purl.org/net/dajobe/>
  ] .

Example from Linguist:

@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
@prefix ex: <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/> .

<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar>
  dc:title "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" ;
  ex:editor [
    ex:fullname "Dave Beckett";
    ex:homePage <http://purl.org/net/dajobe/>
  ] .

Example from Wikipedia:

<http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar> <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title> "RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised)" .
 <http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-syntax-grammar> <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/editor> _:bnode .
 _:bnode <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/fullname> "Dave Beckett" .
 _:bnode <http://example.org/stuff/1.0/homePage> <http://purl.org/net/dajobe/> .

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓
Floats	✓