[RDF](/pages/Resource%20description%20framework.txt) literals are basic values that are not [IRI](/pages/Internationalized%20Resource%20Identifier.txt)s. Literals may only appear in the object position of a [triple](/pages/RDF%20triples.txt).[^1]

## Footnotes

[^1]: https://www.w3.org/TR/rdf12-primer/