(Admin) Re: application/csvm+json magic number [was Re: .well-known]

David,

could you add this as a comment on the github issue list:

https://github.com/w3c/csvw/issues

We register and work through all the comments using github, it helps us a lot in organizing our own work…

Thanks!

Ivan


> On 20 Jun 2015, at 24:44 , David Booth <david@dbooth.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/19/2015 04:19 PM, Gregg Kellogg wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> I think this is important to note in the IANA registration.  I would suggest adding something like the following:
> http://w3c.github.io/csvw/metadata/#iana-considerations
> [[
> Magic number(s):
>    An application/csvm+json document MUST contain a JSON property named "@context" whose value is either the string "http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw" or a JSON array whose first element is the string "http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw".  For parsers that are not JSON-aware, this means that an application/csvm+json document MUST contain the following two strings (including quotes), in order, separated by at least one character (not necessarily whitespace), somewhere in the document though usually near the beginning:
> 
>        "@context"
>        "http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw"
> 
> Thanks,
> David Booth
> 
>> 
>> 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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>> 
>> 
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