Given your "educating" people about software engineering principles, this may fall on deaf ears, but I too have a strong preference for the format with an independent line per triple.

On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetzsch@cs.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

On 10/08/13 12:18, Sebastian Hellmann wrote:

By the way, you can always convert it to turtle easily:
curl
http://downloads.dbpedia.org/3.8/ko/mappingbased_properties_ko.ttl.bz2 |
bzcat | head -100 | rapper -i turtle -o turtle -I - - file

If conversion is so easy, it does not seem worthwhile to have much of a discussion about this at all.

The point of the discussion to advocate for a format that is most useful to the maximum number of people out of the box. Rapper isn't installed by default on systems. A file format with independent lines can be processed using grep and other simple command line tools without having to find and install additional software.

Tom