CSV on the Web: Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data and other updates by Dan Brickley.
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The CSV on the Web Working Group has published a First Public Working Draft of a Metadata Vocabulary for Tabular Data. This is accompanied by an update to the Model for Tabular Data and Metadata on the Web document, alongside the group’s recently updated Use Cases and Requirements document.
Validation, conversion, display and search of tabular data on the web requires additional metadata that describes how the data should be interpreted. The “Metadata vocabulary” document defines a vocabulary for metadata that annotates tabular data, at the cell, table or collection level, while the “Model” document describes a basic data model for such tabular data.
A large percentage of the data published on the Web is tabular data, commonly published as comma separated values (CSV) files. The Working Group welcomes comments on these documents and on their motivating use cases. The next phase of this work will involve exploring mappings from CSV into other popular representations. See the Working Group home page for more details or to get involved.
You need to find the time to read this draft.
There are 22 issues listed in the draft inviting your comments.
See in particular:
ISSUE 6
We invite comment on whether there are other standard metadata vocabularies that should be reused within this specification.
On a quick read, it appears that terms in “…standard metadata vocabularies…” are not subject to further annotation.
That is troubling because if I had a standard metadata vocabulary of war crimes terminology, my usage would show George W. Bush as both a war criminal and a terrorist.
Your usage of those terms may vary from mine. We should be able to discover and manage those differences.
Take the time to read the drafts and comment.