TriG (syntax)

TriG
Filename extension	.trig
Internet media type	application/trig
Developed by	Freie Universität Berlin
Type of format	semantic web
Container for	RDF data
Extended from	Turtle
Standard	W3C Recommendation

TriG is a serialization format for RDF (Resource Description Framework) graphs. It is a plain text format for serializing named graphs and RDF Datasets which offers a compact and readable alternative to the XML-based TriX syntax.

Example[edit]

This example encodes three interlinked named graphs:

http://www.example.org/exampleDocument#G1
http://www.example.org/exampleDocument#G2
http://www.example.org/exampleDocument#G3

 @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .  @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .  @prefix swp: <http://www.w3.org/2004/03/trix/swp-1/> .  @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .  @prefix ex: <http://www.example.org/vocabulary#> .  @prefix : <http://www.example.org/exampleDocument#> .    :G1 { :Monica ex:name "Monica Murphy" .              :Monica ex:homepage <http://www.monicamurphy.org> .        :Monica ex:email <mailto:[email protected]> .        :Monica ex:hasSkill ex:Management }    :G2 { :Monica rdf:type ex:Person .        :Monica ex:hasSkill ex:Programming }    :G3 { :G1 swp:assertedBy _:w1 .        _:w1 swp:authority :Chris .        _:w1 dc:date "2003-10-02"^^xsd:date .           :G2 swp:quotedBy _:w2 .        :G3 swp:assertedBy _:w2 .        _:w2 dc:date "2003-09-03"^^xsd:date .        _:w2 swp:authority :Chris .        :Chris rdf:type ex:Person .        :Chris ex:email <mailto:[email protected]> }

External links[edit]

TriG Specification (2007)
RDF 1.1 TriG W3C Recommendation (2014)
Yacker TriG validator, which does not handle sub-graphs, and does not validate the above example.

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