FWIW, 

Here’s the W3C’s RDF Primer with examples in turtle instead of RDF/XML:
http://www.w3.org/2007/02/turtle/primer/

And the turtle spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/turtle/

Aaron


On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Karen Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 11/5/13 6:45 AM, Ed Summers wrote:
>> I'm with Ross though:
> ... and Karen!
> 
>> I find it much to read rdf as turtle or json-ld than it is rdf/xml.
> 
> It's easier to read, but it's also easier to create *correctly*, and that, to 
> me, is the key point. Folks who are used to XML have a certain notion of data 
> organization in mind. Working with RDF in XML one tends to fall into the XML 
> data "think" rather than the RDF concepts.
> 
> I have suggested (repeatedly) to LC on the BIBFRAME list that they should use 
> turtle rather than RDF/XML in their examples -- because I suspect that they 
> may be doing some "XML think" in the background. This seems to be the case 
> because in some of the BIBFRAME documents the examples are in XML but not 
> RDF/XML. I find this rather ... disappointing.
> 
> I also find it useful to create "pseudo-code" triples using whatever notation 
> I find handy, as in the example I provided earlier for Eric. Writing out 
> actual valid triples is a pain, but seeing your data as triples is very 
> useful.
> 
> kc
> 
> -- 
> Karen Coyle
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