Re: CSVs and provenance

Davide,

Great idea, I feel this is very important and a huge problem for
anyone who has to maintain a CSV and track changes.  I'd love to see a
use case on this.  If you need any help with a real world use case let
me know, there are plenty in the science arena.


Eric

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:01 AM, Ceolin, D. <d.ceolin@vu.nl> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've seen some hints of provenance around, but I'd like to tackle the problem a little bit deeper.
> I believe that there are at least two provenance issues, that are related each other and that probably need a standardized handling:
> - if a CSV file is obtained from a spreadsheet, it's likely that one or more 'cells' result from formulas applied to other cells in the same CSV. Probably (a simplified version of) PROV is a good candidate to represent such relations? If I'm not wrong, there was some related discussion floating around in the chat two telcos ago (about "sum" cells?).
> - also, the whole CSV file may be the result of a specific process, especially if it represents a DB dump and/or the result of a computation. It would be useful to be able to annotate these files with their provenance.
>
> I'm not sure if this is in the scope of the working group, but I believe that at least part of it is.
> Cheers,
>
> Davide
>
>

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