'''Notation 3''', or '''N3''' as it is more commonly known, is a shorthand non-[[XML]] serialization of [[Resource Description Framework]] models, designed with human-readability in mind: N3 is much more compact and readable than XML RDF notation. The format is being developed by [[Tim Berners-Lee]] and others from the [[Semantic Web]] community.

==Examples==

RDF model here written in standard XML notation:

<pre>
<rdf:RDF
    xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <rdf:Description rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn">
    <dc:title>Tony Benn</dc:title>
    <dc:publisher>Wikipedia</dc:publisher>
  </rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</pre>

may be written like this in Notation 3 like this:

<pre>
@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Benn>
  dc:title "Tony Benn";
  dc:publisher "Wikipedia".
</pre>

==External links==

*[http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3.html Notation 3 Specification] on ''[[W3C]] Design Issues'' by Tim Berners-Lee
*[http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/Primer Notation 3 Primer]: ''Getting into RDF & Semantic Web using N3''
*[http://infomesh.net/2002/notation3 A Rough Guide to Notation3]
*[http://www.ninebynine.org/RDFNotes/RDFForLittleLanguages.htm RDF for "Little Languages"]
[[category:Semantic web]]

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