Re: Binary Files

In principle, CSVW is rather format agnostic, so given an appropriate description of the file format, and a means of reading rows, columns and headers, it should work for binary formats. 

Gregg Kellogg

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> On Oct 27, 2021, at 12:34 PM, Erich Bremer <erich@ebremer.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Can https://www.w3.org/TR/csv2rdf/ be used to describe a binary file?  For example, take a binary file with one column as long and the second column as an int and with multiple records of (long+int) that would be 64 bits + 32 bits = 96 bits wide for each row.  I started to create a vocabulary to do this but CSVW seemed to be similar enough that it would work but perhaps a bit of a bending of the original intent of csvw.   I would think it would look something like this with CSVW/schema.org:
> 
> {
>     "@id" : "example.bin/",
>     "@type" : "https://schema.org/MediaObject",
>     "contentSize" : "34806000",
>     "description" : "a simple two-column binary file long/int",
>     "encodingFormat" : "application/octet-stream",
>     "tableSchema" : "_:b137"
> },
> {
>     "@id" : "_:b137",
>     "column" : {
>       "@list" : [ "example.bin/#col=0", "example.bin/#col=1" ]
>     },
>     "https://www.w3.org/ns/csvw/header" : false
> },
> {
>     "@id" : "example.bin/#col=0",
>     "@type" : "https://www.w3.org/ns/csvw/Column",
>     "datatype" : "xsd:unsignedLong"
> }, {
>     "@id" : "example.bin/#col=1",
>     "@type" : "https://www.w3.org/ns/csvw/Column",
>     "datatype" : "xsd:unsignedInt"
> }
> 
> I think it would be useful to describe a binary file in RDF.  - Erich