First Public Working Draft: RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Syntax

RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Syntax

https://www.w3.org/TR/2023/WD-rdf12-concepts-20230516/

Published by
 RDF-star Working Group

Abstract

The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for representing information in the Web. This document defines an abstract syntax (a data model) which serves to link all RDF-based languages and specifications. The abstract syntax has two key data structures: 
 
  * RDF graphs are sets of subject-predicate-object triples, where the elements may be IRIs, blank nodes, or datatyped literals. They are used to express descriptions of resources. 
  * RDF datasets are used to organize collections of RDF graphs, are comprised of a default graph and zero or more named graphs.  

RDF 1.2 introduces quoted triples as another kind of RDF term which can be used as the subject or object of another triple. 

RDF 1.2 Concepts introduces key concepts and terminology for RDF 1.2, discusses datatyping, and the handling of fragment identifiers in IRIs within RDF graphs.

Status of the Document

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. A list of current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical report can be found in the W3C technical reports index at https://www.w3.org/TR/. 

This document is part of the RDF 1.2 document suite. It is the central RDF 1.2 specification and defines the core RDF concepts. Test suites and implementation reports of a number of RDF 1.2 specifications that build on this document are available through the RDF 1.1 Test Cases document [RDF11-TESTCASES]. 

RDF 1.2 Concepts is an update to [RDF11-CONCEPTS], which was itself, an update to [RDF-CONCEPTS-20040210]. 

 Editor's note

Determine how to reference 1.2 test cases. 

This document was published by the RDF-star Working Group as a First Public Working Draft using the Recommendation track.

Publication as a First Public Working Draft does not imply endorsement by W3C and its Members.

This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress.

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This document is governed by the 2 November 2021 W3C Process Document.



Set of Documents  

This document is one of ten RDF 1.2 and twelve SPARQL 1.2 Recommendations produced by the RDF-star Working Group: 

RDF 1.2 Recommendations:  What’s New in RDF 1.2 RDF 1.2 Concepts and Abstract Syntax(this document) RDF 1.2 N-Quads RDF 1.2 N-Triples RDF 1.2 Primer RDF 1.2 Schema RDF 1.2 Semantics RDF 1.2 TriG RDF 1.2 Turtle RDF 1.2 XML Syntax 

SPARQL 1.2 Recommendations:  What’s New in SPARQL 1.2 SPARQL 1.2 Concepts SPARQL 1.2 Query Language SPARQL 1.2 Update SPARQL 1.2 Service Description SPARQL 1.2 Federated Query SPARQL 1.2 Query Results JSON Format SPARQL 1.2 Query Results CSV and TSV Formats SPARQL 1.2 Query Results XML Formats SPARQL 1.2 Entailment Regimes SPARQL 1.2 Protocol SPARQL 1.2 Graph Store HTTP Protocol

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