This is the repository for the RDF Primer deliverable of the RDF & SPARQL Working Group. The editors’ draft of the specification can also be read directly.

Use the standard fork, branch, and pull request workflow to propose changes to the specification. Please make branch names informative—by including the issue or bug number for example.

Editorial changes that improve the readability of the spec or correct spelling or grammatical mistakes are welcome.

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md, about licensing contributions.

This repository contains one of ten RDF 1.2 and twelve SPARQL 1.2 documents produced by the RDF & SPARQL Working Group.

• RDF12-NEW
• RDF12-CONCEPTS
• RDF12-N-QUADS
• RDF12-N-TRIPLES
• RDF12-PRIMER
• RDF12-SCHEMA
• RDF12-SEMANTICS
• RDF12-TRIG
• RDF12-TURTLE
• RDF12-XML

• SPARQL12-NEW
• SPARQL12-CONCEPTS
• SPARQL12-QUERY
• SPARQL12-UPDATE
• SPARQL12-SERVICE-DESCRIPTION
• SPARQL12-FEDERATED-QUERY
• SPARQL12-RESULTS-JSON
• SPARQL12-RESULTS-CSV-TSV
• SPARQL12-RESULTS-XML
• SPARQL12-ENTAILMENT
• SPARQL12-PROTOCOL
• SPARQL12-GRAPH-STORE-PROTOCOL

The working group also has a use case repository collecting use cases for quoted triples and how they can be handled by RDF 1.2 and SPARQL 1.2.

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