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Literal

Some objects in Resource Description Framework (RDF) statements do not refer to other resources with a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), but instead convey a value, such as text, a number, or a date. These objects are known as literals.

There are two types of literals:

  1. Plain literals: strings with a language tag
  2. Typed literals: strings with a datatype URI reference

Examples​

  • University of Saskatchewan Art Gallery: The following TTL snippet states that the title for 1998.004.001 has symbolic content, a plain literal of “Night Fire” with an English language tag.
<http://id.lincsproject.ca/kl4QYIdodRH>
a crm:E35_Title ;
rdfs:label "Title of University of Saskatchewan Art Gallery object 1998.004.001"@en ;
crm:P190_has_symbolic_content "Night Fire"@en .

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