Re: CSV metadata generator and editor

This looks great :) I have just made a quick post about it in the blog for
the new CSVW Community Group, as well as creating a "tools and
implementations" section within that blog for similar future posts.

https://www.w3.org/community/csvw/2016/01/20/csv-metadata-generator-and-editor/

As the WG winds down we will do more and more in that group. It seems that
blog posts for a community group get automatically fwd'd to the
corresponding mailing list, so the post has now also gone to the CG list,
public-csvw@w3.org (see https://www.w3.org/community/csvw/ )

cheers,

Dan



On 18 January 2016 at 09:17, Juergen Umbrich <jueumb@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> one of our students ( Manuel Undesser in CC) developed as part of his
> bachelor thesis a UI for generating and editing the metadata of CSV files
> which is compliant with the CSV on the Web metadata standard.
>
> the current early alpha status and test version is available at:
> http://data.wu.ac.at/csvengine/
>
>
> We would be very happy for any feedback, comments, criticism, suggestions,
> bug reports, etc… ;)
>
> We plan to release our editor in the near future to the public with the
> hope that such a tool will help to further drive the adoption of the
> metadata standard and ease the generation of an initial version.
> We will also release the source code on github after another round of
> testing, improvements and adding documentation.
> Again, any additional suggestions are highly appreciated.
>
> Obviously, there are already a list of further improvements, which can be
> roughly grouped into three areas:
> 1) automatically generate comprehensive metadata (e.g., detect column
> datatypes, primary keys, etc..)
> 2) detect existing metadata and preload it into the editor, so that a user
> can edit existing metadata
> 3) UI and usability improvements
>
>
> Best
>   Jürgen
>