Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your N3 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert N3 to another file type
To convert your N3 file to another format, you need OpenLink Virtuoso or other Data software.
Convert a file to N3
To convert other file formats to the "RDF Serialization" file type, you need software like OpenLink Virtuoso or a similar tool.
About N3 files
The .N3 file format, known as Notation3, is a non-XML serialization of Resource Description Framework (RDF) models, designed by the W3C. Unlike the rigid and verbose RDF (XML) syntax, N3 was built to be compact and human-readable. It is a superset of TTL (Turtle), meaning it handles standard data triples but also supports logic, rules, and formulae (e.g., "if this, then that" assertions). While powerful for Semantic Web developers and AI reasoning, N3 files are often problematic in general data pipelines. They are not natively supported by standard web browsers, Excel, or SQL databases. Furthermore, because N3 supports logic that standard RDF formats do not, converting an N3 file containing complex rules to a static format like NT (N-Triples) can result in data loss unless the reasoning is "baked in" first. To make this data usable in modern web applications, users typically convert N3 to .JSON-LD or XML. For visualization or documentation, converting to a graph format like DOT or a flat CSV is often necessary.
Convert.Guru analyzes your N3 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert N3 file to , you can use OpenLink Virtuoso or similar software from the "Semantic Web Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert files to N3, try OpenLink Virtuoso or another comparable tool in the "Semantic Web Data Storage" category.
The N3 Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our N3 converter.