--- a/rdf-primer/index.html Tue Mar 19 11:34:18 2013 +0000
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html Tue Mar 19 12:57:27 2013 +0000
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@
<Bob> <is born on> <the 4th of July 1990>.
<Leonardo da Vinci> <is the creator of> <the Mona Lisa>.
<The Mona Lisa> <is on display in> <the Louvre>.
+ <Bob> <likes> <The Mona Lisa>.
</pre>
<p>Because RDF statements consist of three elements they are called
@@ -268,17 +269,33 @@
<h2>RDF Syntax</h2>
- <p>RDF has many syntactic forms
+ <p>The RDF Data Model can be expressed in many syntactic forms.
+ We give an overview of those various syntaxes below, and illustrate
+ them using the Mona Lisa example above.</p>
- Turtle Syntax
+ <h3>N-Triples</h3>
- Namespace prefixes</p>
+ <p><a href="http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/rdf/raw-file/default/rdf-turtle/n-triples.html">N-Triples</a>
+ provides a simple line-based, plain text way for serializing RDF data. Each line represents
+ an RDF triple. Its subject, predicate and object are separated by white space. The example above
+ can be represented in N-Triples as follows.</p>
+
+ <pre>
+<http://example.org/#bob> <http://example.org/#knows> <http://example.org/#alice>.
+<http://example.org/#bob> <http://example.org/#birth-date> "1990-07-04"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date>.
+<http://example.org/#da-vinci> <http://example.org/#created> <http://example.org/#the-mona-lisa>.
+<http://example.org/#the-mona-lisa> <http://example.org/#on-display-in> <http://example.org/#the-louvre>.
+<http://example.org/#bob> <http://example.org/#likes> <http://example.org/#the-mona-lisa>.
+ </pre>
+
+ <p>N-Triples is often used for RDF examples, exchanging large RDF datasets, and processing large datasets
+ using standard text processing tools.</p>
</section>
<section id="section-vocabulary">
- <h2>RDF Vocabularies</h2>
+ <h2>RDF Data and Vocabularies</h2>
<p>