- From: Sabine Maennel via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 06:07:18 +0000
- To: public-dxwg-wg@w3.org
sabinem has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/dxwg: == Options for metadata to describe tabular data in a more strutured way? == I am just wondering, why does DCAT not help in a more structured way with providing metadata about tabular data? A lot of data is provided as csv files, which would then be dcat:Distributions. For a datauser it is of great importance to understand the tabular structure of these data files. So in the csv file example: what is the meaning of each column? DCAT provides an unstrutured dct:description for this purpose, but as far as I know there is no support to describe tabular data in a more structured way with it. Or am I wrong with this? In case I am right about this: Why did DCAT go this way? What I found on describing metadata of tabular data was this here: https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-model/#locating-metadata I also found a property https://resources.data.gov/resources/dcat-us/#distribution-describedBy DCAT-US, that might help in this regard. This issue is mainly about understanding. Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/dxwg/issues/1418 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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