- From: Yakov Shafranovich <yakov-ietf@shaftek.org>
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 23:23:47 -0500
- To: "Ceolin, D." <d.ceolin@vu.nl>
- Cc: Eric Stephan <ericphb@gmail.com>, W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
I think something similar to the concept of "User-Agent" in HTTP or email would be helpful. Knowing what software and version generated a given CSV file would help to interpret it. Not sure if this fits within the concept of provenance. Yakov On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ceolin, D. <d.ceolin@vu.nl> wrote: > 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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