This format is to annotate Quran texts with some metadata. If follows the N3 format (a plaintext format) and the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set vocabulary. Both of these technologies are w3c standards.

The extension for a Quran Metadata Format file is .qmf, and it is usually shipped alongside the file(s) that it describes.

A typical qmf file looks like this:

@prefix : <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>.
<>
:title      "De Edele Koran";
:creator    "Sofian S. Siregar";
:publisher  "ICCN";
:date       "2000";
:language   "nl";
:format     "qtf";
:type       "translation";
:identifier "URN:ISBN:90-73355-08-7".

The first line includes the Dublin Core Elements vocabulary. The second line starts an unnamed resource, the conscutive lines describe properties their values on the unnamed resource.

We use the DC Metadata Element Set vocabulary, narrowing it down to our purpose. All term may be omitted or repeated if that seems appropriate.

The terms below are understood as part of the Quran Metadata Format:

The title of the text it describes.

An person (or organization) that created the text: the author. Please repeat this in case there are more then one primary author.

The organization that holds the publishing rights.

A person (or organization) who made minor contributions to the text.

When the text was first published. Valid are: YYYY, YYYY-MM and YYYY-MM-DD.

A short description of the text.

One of "original", "translation" or "commentary".

One of "qtf" (for the Quran Text Format) or "oqf" (for the Open Quran Format).

Here the ISBN can be supplied as a URN, for example "URN:ISBN:90-73355-08-7", an identifier may also be made up as long as it is unique.

Contains a "language identification tag" as specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in document BCP 47. Unless it clearly leads to ambiguity the shorter '2 digit' codes are preferred.

Used to specify the copyright notice or to state it resides in the public domain. Possible content licenses (like Creative Commons) can also be provided here.

Link to the origin of this text, like the site it was downloaded from. May be repeated in case more then one origin is deemed noteworthy.