Re: [ANN] RDF 1.1 Turtle implementation in Ruby

On 29/08/2011 19:38, "Gregg Kellogg" <gregg@kellogg-assoc.com> wrote:

> I've just released rdf-turtle [1] [2], an implementation of the current RDF
> 1.1 Turtle specification [3] in Ruby for the RDF.rb library suite. Note that
> the rdf-n3 gem also asserts that it will parse Turtle, but there are some
> important differences from Notation3 and earlier Turtle specs:
> 
> * additional string-literal support 'lit', "lit", '''lit''', and """lit""",
> * @prefix support uses SPARQL-like PNAMES instead of the more restrictive
> QNAMES,
> * The empty prefix ":" is no longer a synonym for <#>. Out of spec, it is
> implemented as <>,
> * Uses IRIs instead of URI References.
> * For the time being, plain literals are generated without an xsd:string
> datatype, but literals with an xsd:string datatype are saved as non-datatyped
> triples in the graph. This will be updated in the future when the rest of the
> library suite is brought up to date.
> 
> The gem supports both parsing from Turtle to a graph and serializing from a
> graph to Turtle.
> 
> Basic usage is fairly simple:
> 
>     require 'rdf/turtle'
>     graph = 
> RDF::Graph.load("https://raw.github.com/gkellogg/rdf-turtle/master/etc/doap.tt
> l", :format => :ttl)
>     graph.dump(:ttl)
> 
> Issues with the spec will be posted to public-rdf-comments@w3.org. Issues with
> the gem should go to public-rdf-ruby@w3.org
> Gregg
> 
> [1] http://github.org/gkellogg/rdf-turtle
> [2] http://rubygems.org/gems/rdf-turtle
> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-turtle-20110809/



Hi Greg,

This is great! Thank you very much for creating this.
I have just updated dbpedialite.org to add Turtle support :)

http://dbpedialite.org/things/166919.ttl

nick.


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