RE: What to do when "primary key" cell values are blank

Hi Andy

... so it looks like I've got confused in my terminology:

"""\"The\" primary key is different in each pass.  The note in R-PrimaryKey does not meet our experiences."""

... and ...

"""\"Primary\" is being overloaded between uniquely identifying a row (structural to CSV files), and uniquely identifying an entity (modelling).  In denormalised data, entities might get repeated on different rows."""

I've clearly been thinking about the "modelling" case not the "structural" case. Can you help me clarify with some suggested alternative text?

Thanks in anticipation.

Jeremy



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Seaborne [mailto:andy@apache.org]
> Sent: 06 June 2014 10:23
> To: public-csv-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: What to do when "primary key" cell values are blank
> 
> On 06/06/14 09:53, Tandy, Jeremy wrote:
> > Hi - when putting together Use Case #24 - Expressing a hierarchy
> within occupational listings [1] I was considering how primary key
> behaviour might work. In this use case, there are four different types
> of entity described in a single CSV file. I inferred that we might
> apply four different templates to pull out the relevant contents and
> transform into RDF. A given row describes _one of_ the types of entity,
> meaning that the primary key column asserted, say, for extracting "SOC
> Major Group" concepts will often be blank.
> >
> > I have stated in the use case that:
> >> Where the value in the designated primary key column is blank, the
> row is ignored.
> >
> > I have also added this constraint to the primary key requirement [2].
> >
> > Please advise is this is inappropriate!
> 
> We use template conversion - we often run multiple templates on the
> same CSV, essentially extracting different kinds of entity on each
> pass.
> "The" primary key is different in each pass.  The note in R-PrimaryKey
> does not meet our experiences.
> 
> JeniT's condition extract is an example where it might be done as a
> pass to generate the skos:broader separately from the "code rdfs:label
> ....".
> 
> "Primary" is being overloaded between uniquely identifying a row
> (structural to CSV files), and uniquely identifying an entity
> (modelling).  In denormalised data, entities might get repeated on
> different rows.
> 
> 	Andy
> 
> >
> > Regards, Jeremy
> >
> >
> > [1]
> > http://w3c.github.io/csvw/use-cases-and-requirements/#UC-
> ExpressingHie
> > rarchyWithinOccupationalListings [2]
> > http://w3c.github.io/csvw/use-cases-and-requirements/#R-PrimaryKey
> >
>

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