Talk:N-Triples

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 * What software imports/exports N-Triples?
 * Why does N-Triples exist? When is it preferable to N3 or Turtle?
 * What is the Content Type for N-Triples? (Also, as all valid N-Triples files are also valid Turtle and N3, Content Types for those are also acceptable.)
 * I have re-added the technical and importance tags. Here's the test: find someone that knows nothing about computing, have them read the first sentence of this article, and ask them if they understood what this is about and why it might be important. If (when) they say they have no idea, you know the problem is not solved. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:19, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
 * While this sounds like a good idea, it does not always work in practice (e.g. article "Log-space_reduction"). If people do not understand "N-Triples is a format for storing and transmitting data.", then they won't understand other computer science articles as well. To answer some of the questions: We use N-Triples in some of our projects (DBpedia, LinkedGeoData), but there are certainly more. The format exists because of its simplicity and is sometimes used if RDF should be created without using a library. One advantage is that one can concatenate/merge two N-Triple files and the result is a valid N-Triple file (so two knowledge bases can be merged by merging their N-Triple versions). A disadvantage is, of course, that it needs considerably more space than Turtle because it lacks several syntactic shortcuts. Jens Lehmann 2008 (talk) 14:41, 2 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't believe that RDF/XML or Turtle support the CURIE syntax but RDFa does support it. zcw100 —Preceding undated comment added 14:12, 23 July 2010 (UTC).

Example
Example does not have valid triples when checked by http://www.w3.org/RDF/Validator/ and does not show comments and data types in N-Triples text. Please make better example. --Nashev (talk) 11:57, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Expample is valid RDF/XML by now and I can't see anything that would be in XML but not in N-Triples. Markusmr (talk) 11:42, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

IANA registration of media types
The media types application/n-triples and application/n-quads are not listed in the IANA registry of media types. The n-triples registration form was posted to the ietf-types mailing list (also archived by Gmane) for review on 2012-04-18 and got some comments but it doesn't look like a revised version was ever posted there. For n-quads, I didn't even find an initial post. So I don't know whether IANA was asked to register these. 2001:14BB:170:1CE2:4E0F:6EFF:FED5:4EE0 (talk) 08:44, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Meanwhile it's obviously included in the IANA list: Markusmr (talk) 15:49, 27 January 2019 (UTC)

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