On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:03 , Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > Thanks for all your work pulling together the use cases and requirements. > > Do you think it would be useful to cluster the requirements? Looking at them, I can see: > > * Parsing, eg requirements around recognising other delimiters > * Annotation Types, eg R-PrimaryKey > * Metadata Discovery, eg R-PackagingOfMultipleTables > * Applications, eg R-CsvValidation > * Non-Functional, eg R-ZeroEditCompatibility > > Regarding the requirement R-PackagingOfMultipleTables, I think the requirement is to annotate a group of tables, not necessarily to package them. In other words, a design in which there was a metadata file that pointed to a group of tables hosted elsewhere on the web would seem to satisfy the requirement from PublicationOfNationalStatistics: they wouldn’t necessarily need to be packaged together (eg in a zip). > > Also, FWIW, I would only take syntactic requirements from published “CSVs”, not from non-text-based formats like Excel. So, for example, I wouldn’t use the ONS Excel files as demonstrating a requirement to have multiple tables within a single CSV file. +1 We would open the flood gates if we took the original spreadsheet (and other) programs into account... Ivan > > Cheers, > > Jeni > -- > Jeni Tennison > http://www.jenitennison.com/ > ---- Ivan Herman, W3C Digital Publishing Activity Lead Home: http://www.w3.org/People/Ivan/ mobile: +31-641044153 GPG: 0x343F1A3D FOAF: http://www.ivan-herman.net/foaf
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