Re: Names & Titles (Was: Re: Attempted example CSV metadata document and template)

I was under the impression that the titles are not necessarily unique?

Yakov

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:31 AM, Tandy, Jeremy
<jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk> wrote:
> Hi Jeni -
>
> Thanks for the clarification; I've updated the example (see below) ... and changed the filename to ".json".
>
> One question: is the "fields" array in the metadata document an ordered list, or do we expect parsers to match against the titles?
>
> Regarding the updated example [1], I've been a bit provocative and used JSON-LD syntax to provide the titles in both English and French. Presumably this is OK too?
>
>
>            "schema": {"fields": [
>                {
>                    "name": "datetime",
>                    "title": [
>                        {"@value": "Date-time", "@language": "en"},
>                        {"@value": "Date et l'heure", "@language": "fr"}
>                    ],
>                    "description": "Date-time that the observation occurred.",
>                    "type": "dateTime",
>                    "format": "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ",
>                    "constraints": {
>                        "required": true
>                    }
>                },
>                {
>                    "name": "air-temp",
>                    "title": [
>                        {"@value": "Air temperature (Cel)", "@language": "en"},
>                        {"@value": "La température d'air (C)", "@language": "fr"}
>                    ],
>                    "description": "Air temperature quantity value expressed in Celsius.",
>                    "type": "double",
>                    "constraints": {"required": true}
>                },
>                {
>                    "name": "dew-point-temp",
>                    "title": [
>                        {"@value": "Dew-point temperature (Cel)", "@language": "en"},
>                        {"@value": "Température du point de rosée (C)", "@language": "fr"}
>                    ],
>                    "description": "Dew-point temperature quantity value expressed in Celsius.",
>                    "type": "double",
>                    "constraints": {"required": true}
>                }
>            ]}
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> [1]: https://github.com/w3c/csvw/blob/gh-pages/examples/csv-metadata-and-template-for-simple-weather-obs-example.md
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:jeni@jenitennison.com]
>> Sent: 15 June 2014 12:32
>> To: CSV on the Web Working Group; Tandy, Jeremy
>> Subject: Names & Titles (Was: Re: Attempted example CSV metadata
>> document and template)
>>
>> Jeremy, thanks for doing this. It's always good to have a worked
>> example.
>>
>> Regarding names and titles (and 'short names' that you've introduced).
>> The intention in the metadata document is for the `name` property to be
>> the equivalent to the `short-name` in your example: the canonical,
>> unique, column name that can be used as the basis for conversions. See
>> [1].
>>
>> The `title` property is for human-readable names. If there are several
>> of these in a particular language then you can use an array. For
>> example, you could have:
>>
>> {
>>   "name": "dew-point-temp",
>>   "title": [
>>     "Dew-point temperature (Cel)",
>>     "Dew-point temperature (Celsius)"
>>    ],
>>    ...
>> }
>>
>> to indicate that both "Dew-point temperature (Cel)" and "Dew-point
>> temperature (Celsius)" are acceptable titles (to appear in the header
>> line of a CSV file that adheres to the schema) but that the name `dew-
>> point-temp` is the one to use in references to the column (eg within
>> the metadata file), and in conversions into other formats.
>>
>> Does that seem reasonable?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Jeni
>>
>> [1] http://w3c.github.io/csvw/metadata/#column-name
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------
>> From: Tandy, Jeremy jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk
>> Reply: Tandy, Jeremy jeremy.tandy@metoffice.gov.uk
>> Date: 12 June 2014 at 13:02:43
>> To: CSV on the Web Working Group public-csv-wg@w3.org
>> Subject:  Attempted example CSV metadata document and template
>>
>> > All -
>> >
>> > I've just uploaded to [GitHub][1] a rework of the "Simple Weather
>> Observation" example.
>> > I've tried to create a CSV metadata document following the rules in
>> > the [Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data][2] and [Generating RDF
>> from Tabular Data on the Web][3] documents.
>> >
>> > I would be particularly interested in:
>> >
>> > - corrections to errors!
>> > - comments on additional proposed properties in the metadata document
>> > ("short-name", "template", "microsyntax")
>> > - use of "hasFormat" to specify the Content-Type associated with a
>> > Template
>> > - use of a REGEXP within a URI Template to convert ISO 8601 syntax to
>> > a simplified form
>> > - thoughts about a way to describe that microsyntax format within the
>> > metadata document (see CellMicrosyntax requirement][4]), e.g. to
>> > define the sub-elements within the microsyntax that may be extracted
>> for use later - see [Parsing cell microsyntax][5].
>> >
>> > Comments welcome.
>> >
>> > Jeremy
>> >
>> >
>> > [1]:
>> > https://github.com/w3c/csvw/blob/gh-pages/examples/csv-metadata-and-
>> te
>> > mplate-for-simple-weather-obs-example.md
>> > [2]: http://w3c.github.io/csvw/metadata/index.html
>> > [3]: http://w3c.github.io/csvw/csv2rdf/
>> > [4]:
>> > http://w3c.github.io/csvw/use-cases-and-requirements/#R-
>> CellMicrosynta
>> > x
>> > [5]:
>> > https://github.com/w3c/csvw/blob/gh-pages/examples/csv-metadata-and-
>> te
>> > mplate-for-simple-weather-obs-example.md#parsing-cell-microsyntax
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>> --
>> Jeni Tennison
>> http://www.jenitennison.com/

Received on Tuesday, 17 June 2014 01:11:06 UTC