- From: Ceolin, D. <d.ceolin@vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:39:21 +0000
- To: Eric Stephan <ericphb@gmail.com>
- CC: W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
Hi Eric, I should have something, but not much. So yes please, that would be very helpful. Thanks, Davide Il giorno 27/feb/2014, alle ore 15.48, Eric Stephan ha scritto: > 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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