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#shorthand
Rdf Primer
Blank nodes for things without URIs
Blank nodes also provide a way to more accurately make statements about resources that may not have URIs, but that are described in terms of relationships with other resources that do have URIs. [..] The point is that saying something like "the author of the book is…
Xml qualified name (or qname)
For convenience, the Primer uses a shorthand way of writing triples (the same shorthand is also used in other RDF specifications). This shorthand substitutes an XML qualified name (or QName) without angle brackets as an abbreviation for a full URI reference (QNames are…