Re: Organising Requirements

Right: we still need to capture the semantic requirements. I don’t think we need to change either of the quotes that you (Jeremy) brought out. My remark was purely about the description of the "R-PackagingOfMultipleTables” requirement which is phrased as a requirement for packaging rather than as a requirement for grouping tables so that annotations can be assigned to the group, which is what I think it really is.

Jeni

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From: Ivan Herman ivan@w3.org
Reply: Ivan Herman ivan@w3.org
Date: 24 February 2014 at 11:31:34
To: Tandy, Jeremy jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk
Subject:  Re: Organising Requirements

>  
> As far as I am concerned: yes. The question is whether these cases  
> (which are obviously real) are also present in published CSV  
> files. If they are (eg, if the Statistics guys indeed publish  
> their data in CSV 'verbatim' from those Excel sheets) then of  
> course it is an issue for us. But if they are, hm, smart enough to  
> publish CSV that, for example, does not contain the presentation  
> artifacts, then we can safely ignore those cases...
>  
> Of course... there is a remark somewhere on the use case wiki page  
> that says that data publishers may _not_ want to publish CSV because  
> those very artifacts are not available, then that is of course  
> an issue for us, too. That may be the case of your first example  
> below...
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Ivan
>  
> On 24 Feb 2014, at 10:35 , Tandy, Jeremy  
> wrote:
>  
> > Point accepted.
> >
> > I think that there are two areas of the Publication of National  
> Statistics use case  
> to modify:
> >
> > 1) "Several tables may appear within a single sheet; for example,  
> refer to labour market statistics sheet 18(1). Here we see statistics  
> relating to headline estimates, change on quarter and change  
> on year. A closer inspection indicates that the column layout  
> is identical for each sub-table; only the meaning of the data  
> values changes."
> >
> > 2) "The layout of tabular data within each sheet is optimised  
> for human consumption. Presentation artifacts are typically  
> intermingled with the data itself making it difficult for data  
> reusers to extract data from these tables for further processing.  
> Presentation artifacts, some of which are illustrated in figure  
> Fig. 1 Presentation artifacts in statistics worksheet, include:"  
> [etc.]
> >
> > Can you confirm that I've interpreted your concerns correctly?  
> >
> > Thanks, Jeremy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
> > Sent: 24 February 2014 08:37
> > To: Jeni Tennison
> > Cc: Tandy, Jeremy; W3C CSV on the Web Working Group
> > Subject: Re: Organising Requirements
> >
> >
> > On 23 Feb 2014, at 22:03 , Jeni Tennison  
> 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
> >> --
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> >> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> >>
> >
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