Re: .well-known

> On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:17 PM, David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
> 
> A technical question: does a CSVW metadata file supposed to contain a particular string -- a 'magic number' perhaps -- that identifies it as being a CSVW file?   If the metadata file is discovered first -- such as through a web search -- then this would help prevent a non-CSVW JSON file that just happens to look like a CSVW metadata file from being erroneously interpreted as a CSVW metadata file.

The IANA registration shows no Magic Number, but valid metadata documents MUST have the context "http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw”, which will typically (although not necessarily) appear at the beginning of the document. In fact, this is what my JSON-LD processor looks to to not treat it as JSON-LD, but as Tabular Metadata.

Gregg

> I did not find the answer to this question when I looked in the spec, but maybe I looked in the wrong place.
> 
> Thanks,
> David Booth
> 
> 

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