[data-protocols] Simple Data Format: straw man

Tue May 15 09:55:10 BST 2012

Nice work! Love it!

Pieter

On 05/15/2012 10:52 AM, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Substantially inspired by Google's Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL),
> I've put together a specification for a "Simple Data Format":
> 
> <http://www.dataprotocols.org/en/latest/simple-data-format.html>
> 
> Feedback and comments very welcome. Some further background info below.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rufus
> 
> 
> ## Purpose
> 
> The format’s focus is on simplicity and web usage – that is, usage
> online with access and transmission over HTTP. In addition the format
> is focused on data that can be presented in a tabular structure and in
> making it easy to produce (and consume) this format from spreadsheets
> and relational databases.
> 
> Main difference from DSPL:
> 
> This specification owes a great deal to the excellent Dataset
> Publishing Language (DSPL) put forward by Google. The main difference
> is in using JSON instead of XML for the schema and re-using as far as
> possible the JSON-LD schema language (based on linked-data) rather
> than inventing a new type and schema structure.
> 
> ## Motivating examples
> 
> Collection of time series, e.g. YourTopia dataset
> :http://datahub.io/dataset/yourtopia-italy
> 
> OpenSpending data format: http://wiki.openspending.org/Data_Format
> 
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