Re: Agenda request: review approach of CSV2RDF

On Mar 30, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote:

> Could we have a slot on CSV2RDF this week, please?

I think we should also probably discuss CSV2JSON, as the test files we pushed up are for both.

I’ll plan on attending the call again this week.

Gregg

> I'd like to check that the general approach is reasonable and whether there are any different approaches to consider before diving into one in particular.
> 
> Concretely, this example (which is test009 from the test area that Gregg created) is the style of the approach:
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> http://w3c.github.io/csvw/csv2rdf/#example-1
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> The rest of the document is just some rough notes at the moment, https://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/CSV2RDF might be more helpful.
> 
> Calling this "direct" mapping might be a bit confusing - it can be informed by any annotations so it's not like the RDB2RDF equivalent and only working from the CSV input.  The annotations would give some of the equivalent of the SQL schema information.
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> There isn't a checklist against the candidate requirements but going through the relevant ones, none of them look like a problem.  The input is in the form of the Annotated Data Model so it is not about the detailed parsing of "CSV"-like files (e.g. ";" for ",", fixed width formats, labelling content around the data table, ...)
> 
> 	Thanks,
> 	Andy
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> 

Received on Monday, 31 March 2014 21:35:08 UTC