(registered 2017-03-07, last udpated 2017-03-07)

Media type name: application

Media subtype name: n-quads

Required parameters: None

Optional parameters: None

Encoding considerations: 8bit
The syntax of N-Quads is expressed over code points in Unicode. The encoding is always UTF-8.
Unicode code points may also be expressed using an \uXXXX (U+0 to U+FFFF) or \UXXXXXXXX syntax (for U+10000 onwards) where X is a hexadecimal digit [0-9A-F]

Security considerations:
Resources with the application/n-quads media type have the same security concerns as those with the application/n-triples media type. See the security considerations for application/n-triples: http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/n-triples

Interoperability considerations:
There are no known interoperability issues.

Published specification:
https://www.w3.org/TR/n-quads/

Applications which use this media:
No widely deployed applications are known to use this media type. It may be used by some web services and clients consuming their data.

Fragment identifier considerations:
None

Restrictions on usage:
None

Provisional registration? (standards tree only):
None

Additional information:

1. Deprecated alias names for this type: None
2. Magic number(s): None
3. File extension(s): ".nq"
4. Macintosh file type code: "TEXT"
5. Object Identifiers: None

General Comments:


Person to contact for further information:

1. Name: Eric Prud'hommeaux
2. Email: eric&w3.org

Intended usage: Common
COMMON

Author/Change controller: The N-Quads specification is the product of the RDF WG. The W3C reserves change control over this specifications.