RE: Extension for metadata file

Hi - definitely agree with move to ".json" & need to recognise use of JSON-LD (which is itself JSON). Is there a filename suffix convention for JSON-LD or is (plain old) ".json" sufficient?

Jeremy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Herman [mailto:ivan@w3.org]
> Sent: 15 June 2014 14:20
> To: Jeni Tennison
> Cc: public-csv-wg@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Extension for metadata file
> 
> Another alternative would be to use .jsonld (I guess we agreed that the
> metadata is, in fact, in JSON LD). The media type of JSON LD is
> /ld+json; I am not sure how well the '+' approach is honoured by
> different tools (I am not too optimistic...).
> 
> I do not feel strong about it, but I thought we should at least give it
> some thought...
> 
> Ivan
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> (Written on mobile, sorry for brevity and misspellings...)
> 
> 
> 
> > On 15 Jun 2014, at 13:39, Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I’ve created a pull request [1] for changing from using `.csvm` as
> the extension for metadata files to using `.json`. The reason for the
> change is that we’ve concluded (I think) that we’ll use JSON as the
> format for the metadata file, and it’s a lost easier for users if that
> JSON is automatically displayed/formatted as JSON in editors etc, which
> it will be if the `.json` extension gets used.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Jeni
> >
> > [1] https://github.com/w3c/csvw/pull/21

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> > Jeni Tennison
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> >

Received on Monday, 16 June 2014 08:39:04 UTC