N3 in a nutshell is: ----------------------------------- 1) an object has an id and some types. Both are prepended with a ':' + an object definition ends wi

N3 in a nutshell is: ----------------------------------- 1) an object has an id and some types. Both are prepended with a ':' + an object definition ends with a '.' For example: :teacher1 a :Teacher. 2) an object has property values. Each property name is prepended with a ':'. A property value of type string is surrounded with '"""'. A property value of type integer is as-is. Several values for the same property are separated by ','. Properties are separated by ";" For example: :teacher1 :firstNames """John""","""Michael"""; :lastName """Doe""". 3) Objects properties are properties whose value is another object. Such an object property value is simply the id of the referenced object. For example: :teacher1 :studiedAt :Yale, :Stanford, :Miskatonic. 4) Your object definitions may be split into multiple parts. For example: :teacher1 a :Teacher. :teacher1 :firstNames """John""","""Michael"""; :lastName """Doe""". :teacher1 :studiedAt :Yale, :Stanford, :Miskatonic. :Miskatonic a :University. :Miskatonic :locatedIn :Arkham; :name """Miskatonic University""". :Arkham a :City. :Arkham :famousTeacher :teacher1. ----------------------------------- Nothing especially difficult, in my humble opinion. The great benefit of N3 (and the Semantic Web in general) is that the object definitions can come from separate datasets and be merged into a single graph, because all UUIDs are aligned in the Semantic Web.