Re: Inline metadata in CSV

Gregg Kellogg
gregg@greggkellogg.net

On May 6, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> 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]).
> 
> 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.

+1

Gregg
> 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 22:49:56 UTC