Turtle

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Turtle

Summary

Turtle is a file format[1]. Turtle draws 95 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #65 of 297).[2]

Key Facts

  • Turtle's instance of is recorded as file format[3].
  • Turtle's instance of is recorded as data serialization format[4].
  • Turtle's instance of is recorded as W3C Recommendation[5].
  • Turtle's instance of is recorded as field of study[6].
  • Turtle's instance of is recorded as field of study[7].
  • Turtle's main regulatory text is recorded as RDF 1.1 Turtle[8].
  • Turtle's based on is recorded as N-Triples[9].
  • Turtle is a type of N-Triples[10].
  • Turtle is a type of Notation3[11].
  • Turtle is used for serialization[12].
  • Turtle is used for HTML5[13].
  • Turtle is used for Extensible HyperText Markup Language[14].
  • Turtle is used for serialization[15].
  • 2003 marks the founding of Turtle[16].
  • Turtle began on November 17, 2003[17].
  • Turtle began on August 9, 2011[18].
  • Turtle's official website is recorded as https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-turtle-20140225/[19].
  • Turtle's media type is recorded as application/x-turtle[20].
  • Turtle's media type is recorded as text/turtle[21].
  • Turtle's file extension is recorded as ttl[22].
  • Turtle's standards body is recorded as World Wide Web Consortium[23].
  • Turtle's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/turtle-rdf[24].
  • Turtle's manifestation of is recorded as UTF-8[25].
  • Turtle's manifestation of is recorded as Resource Description Framework[26].
  • Turtle's manifestation of is recorded as RDF graph[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[3], data serialization format[4], W3C Recommendation[5], and field of study[6].

History and Context

2003 marks the founding of Turtle[16].

Why It Matters

Turtle draws 95 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #65 of 297).[2] Turtle has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Turtle is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . w3.org. w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . dajobe.org. dajobe.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . w3.org. w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. iana.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . RDF 1.1 Turtle. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . w3.org. Retrieved . w3.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · TiagoLubiana · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Manifestation of UTF-8, Resource Description Framework, RDF graph
    Standards body World Wide Web Consortium
    Based on N-Triples
    Official website https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-turtle-20140225/
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14357]]: format_3255, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289761405|Turtle (#289761405)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7899|EDAM Ontology]] #mix"
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