RDF 1.2

Revision of RDF that adds triple terms, so a statement can itself be the object of another statement; it grew out of RDF-star. Its core spec became a W3C Candidate Recommendation in April 2026.

Read the specification ↗ w3.org

Part of threads Graphs, tables and property graphs responds; Statements about statements settles

published by

• World Wide Web Consortium organization 1994 [src]

succeeded

• RDF standard 1999 [src]

responds to

• Report of the W3C Workshop on Web Standardization for Graph Data writing 2019 [src1][src2]
  Triple terms are the RDF extension for statements about statements discussed at the 2019 workshop.

edited by

• Andy Seaborne person [src]
• Gregg Kellogg person [src]
  until his death in September 2025
• Olaf Hartig person [src]
• Pierre-Antoine Champin person b. 1974 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• start: Candidate Recommendation date; 'first published' as a Recommendation is still pending.

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-concepts/
• https://w3c.github.io/rdf-star/cg-spec/2021-12-17.html