The Semantic Web provides a common framework that allows data to be shared and reused across application, enterprise, and community boundaries. It is a collaborative effort led by W3C with participation from a large number of researchers and industrial partners. It is based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF).
W3C Team has published new versions of the RDF N3 and the RDF Turtle serialization formats, co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly for the former, and David Beckett and Tim Berners-Lee for the latter. The new versions also eliminate some minor incompatibilities between these languages and the SPARQL pattern language.
The authors have also submitted the text/n3 and text/turtle media types to IETF.