!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] ([Turtle]) was defined by [Dave Beckett] as a subset of [Tim Berners-Lee] and Dan Connolly's [Notation3] ([N3]) language, and a superset of the minimal N-Triples format. 

Unlike full [N3], which has an expressive power that goes much beyond [RDF], [{$pagename}] can only serialize valid RDF graphs. 

[{$pagename}] is an alternative to [RDF]/[XML], the originally unique syntax and standard for writing [RDF]. As opposed to [RDF]/[XML], [{$pagename}] does __not__ rely on [XML] and is generally recognized as being more readable and easier to edit manually than its [XML] counterpart.

[SPARQL], the query language for [RDF], uses a syntax similar to [{$pagename}] for expressing query patterns.

In [2011|Year 2011], a working group of the [World Wide Web Consortium] ([W3C]) started working on an updated version of [RDF], with the intention of publishing it along with a standardised version of [RDF]. The [{$pagename}] specification was published as a [W3C] recommendation on 25 February [2014|Year 2014]

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[{ReferringPagesPlugin before='*' after='\n' }]
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* [#1] - [Turtle|Wikipedia:Turtle_(syntax)|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2016-12-20-