RE: Archiving data

Thank you for your quick reply!

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Hi Manon,

The structure and the schema of a CSV file can be enhanced by implementing CSV on the Web<https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-primer/>. I do think that format is more future proof compared to Excel and provides a better machine readable format because you can add various metadata including the data type of your tabular data by using various vocabulary such as Dublin Core/schema.org...

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Pierre Dubois

On Mon, 23 Sept 2024 at 09:58, Tangen, Michael H (MNIT) <michael.tangen@state.mn.us<mailto:michael.tangen@state.mn.us>> wrote:
CSV files can include header information as long as your first row is that header. But generally, yes, Excel has more potential to retain structural information.



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Good morning, I have question regarding the best way to ensure that data is accessible once archived. My feeling is that exporting data into Excel format is better than CSV b/c the relationship to headers would be better than CSV.

Not sure if anyone can confirm this or provide more insight.



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Manon Miron

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