Suggestion on ISSUE-7 in "Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web": Allow metadata in any RDF-enabled format

http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/#h_issue_7
says:
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Issue 7

Used a suffix on filenames to find metadata about them, though we 
haven't decided what format metadata documents should be in, or even if 
they should be conneg'd.
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The WG charter says that the metadata "should be defined, or should have 
an encoding, in standard RDF".  One possibility would be to allow a 
related metadata document to be in any RDF-enabled format -- including 
CSV+.  If a metadata document were supplied in CSV+ format, then it 
could be converted to RDF according to the same mapping rules as any 
other CSV+ document.  This of course is recursive, but in practice the 
recursion would likely involve only one or two steps.

David

Received on Sunday, 6 April 2014 21:55:33 UTC