- From: Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org>
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 12:53:08 +0100
- To: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Gregg Kellogg <gregg@greggkellogg.net>
- CC: Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org>, W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
On 22/05/14 12:13, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
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> On 22/05/2014 11:55, Andy Seaborne wrote:
>> On 22/05/14 09:51, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
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>>> My point is that it will take some thought to take what's essentially a
>>> free text string and convert it to a part of a URI. I've also found that
>>> people who edit spreadsheets are pretty liberal about whitespace and
>>> capitalisation. My system turns the headers into camalCase, which covers
>>> some of these issues, but that may not work for all, especially
>>> non-latin headings.
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>> Agreed - we do need a robust conversion from column name to URI in the
>> case where no metadata is given.
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>> The metadata is a place where a explicit predicate can be added to do
>> better than the plain conversion:
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>> e.g.
>> https://github.com/w3c/csvw/blob/gh-pages/examples/graph-templating.md
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>> The other opportunity is to preprocess the CSV file from original form
>> to a form as input to conversion ("5starRating" => "FiveStarRating").
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>> Andy
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> There's also the issue of a repeated heading. I've encountered that. eg.
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> ID, Title, Contact 1, Email, Contact 2, Email
And indeed no headings and RTL with repeated headings.
Do you think more needs to be said in, say,
http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/index.html#core-tabular-data-model
or
http://w3c.github.io/csvw/syntax/index.html#headers
?
(Looking at that, I was expecting #core-tabular-data-model to say that
"columns MAY have titles")
Andy
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