Re: Inline metadata in CSV

On 06/05/14 18:41, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In the Locating Metadata section [1] of the “Model for Tabular Data
> and Metadata on the Web”, we outline five possible methods for
> locating metadata about a given CSV file.
>
> Two of these involve embedding metadata within the CSV file itself. I
> want to propose that we decide to scope, at least for now, to not
> specifying any mechanism for embedding metadata within CSV files,
> aside from supplying headers for columns (as in 3.1 [2]).

+1

 Andy

> In other words, we’ll focus on only providing metadata in a separate
> document and using plain CSV files. We won’t specify anything about
> how to add comments or anything in the CSV file itself.
>
> Any objections? I’d like us to resolve one way or the other in our
> call tomorrow.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeni
>
> [1] http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#locating-metadata [2]
> http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#embedded-metadata
> --
 > Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Tuesday, 6 May 2014 22:02:24 UTC