TriX (
Triples in XML) is a serialization format for RDF (
Resource Description Framework
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a method to describe and exchange graph data. It was originally designed as a data model for metadata by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It provides a variety of syntax notations and formats, of whi ...
) graphs. It is an
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...
format for serializing Named Graphs and RDF Datasets which offers a compact and readable alternative to the XML-based
RDF/XML syntax. It was jointly created by
HP Labs
HP Labs is the exploratory and advanced research group for HP Inc. HP Labs' headquarters is in Palo Alto, California and the group has research and development facilities in Bristol, UK. The development of programmable desktop calculators, ink ...
and
Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1 ...
.
It is suggested that those digital artifacts dependent of the serialization format need means to verify immutability, or digital artifacts including datasets, code, texts, and images are not verifiable nor permanent. Embedding cryptographic hash values to applied URIs has been suggested for structured data files such as nano-publications.
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Example
https://example.org/Bob
https://example.org/wife
https://example.org/Mary
https://example.org/Bob
https://example.org/name
Bob
https://example.org/Mary
https://example.org/age
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Computer file formats
Resource Description Framework
XML markup languages
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