I just
announced the release of the Turtle version 2006-01-02 RDF syntax which I designed based on adding on the simple N-Triples format, and taking items from Notation 3 (N3). There have been happily, many people using this over the years and a lot of pending updates. This release though was primarily because of SPARQL which uses a Turtle/N3-style style for the query and data parts of the language. I know that several people are working on new and updated Turtle parsers so now seems a good time to move it on. The Turtle Moves as Pratchett put it.