- From: Ceolin, D. <d.ceolin@vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 09:01:51 +0000
- To: W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
Hi all, I've seen some hints of provenance around, but I'd like to tackle the problem a little bit deeper. I believe that there are at least two provenance issues, that are related each other and that probably need a standardized handling: - if a CSV file is obtained from a spreadsheet, it's likely that one or more 'cells' result from formulas applied to other cells in the same CSV. Probably (a simplified version of) PROV is a good candidate to represent such relations? If I'm not wrong, there was some related discussion floating around in the chat two telcos ago (about "sum" cells?). - also, the whole CSV file may be the result of a specific process, especially if it represents a DB dump and/or the result of a computation. It would be useful to be able to annotate these files with their provenance. I'm not sure if this is in the scope of the working group, but I believe that at least part of it is. Cheers, Davide
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