CR: Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data

Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data

http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/CR-tabular-metadata-20150716/

feedback due by: 2015-10-30

Abstract

Validation, conversion, display, and search of tabular data on the web requires additional metadata that describes how the data should be interpreted. This document defines a vocabulary for metadata that annotates tabular data. This can be used to provide metadata at various levels, from groups of tables and how they relate to each other down to individual cells within a table.

The metadata defined in this specification is used to provide annotations on an annotated table or group of tables, as defined in [tabular-data-model]. Annotated tables form the basis for all further processing, such as validating, converting, or displaying the tables.

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The CSV on the Web Working Group was chartered to produce a Recommendation "Access methods for CSV Metadata" as well as Recommendations for "Metadata vocabulary for CSV data" and "Mapping mechanism to transforming CSV into various Formats (e.g., RDF, JSON, or XML)". This document aims to primarily satisfy the second of those Recommendations.

This document was published by the CSV on the Web Working Group as a Candidate Recommendation. This document is intended to become a W3C Recommendation. If you wish to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-csv-wg@w3.org (subscribe, archives). W3C publishes a Candidate Recommendation to indicate that the document is believed to be stable and to encourage implementation by the developer community. This Candidate Recommendation is expected to advance to Proposed Recommendation no earlier than 30 October 2015. All comments are welcome.

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