[okfn-labs] Data Package standard

Fri Oct 16 12:46:24 UTC 2015

Thanks, Rufus. Very interesting.

One more question in this direction: How do you see the relation between 
the datapackage standard and the "CSV on the Web" W3C standard to evolve 
in the future? You're involved in the latter as well, right? 
http://www.w3.org/2013/csvw/wiki/Main_Page

I would especially be interested in the meta data file 
"datapackage.json" vs. the "*.csv-metadata.json" file from 
http://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-tabular-metadata-20150416/. Both look 
similar but are still not quite the same. Are there any plans for 
convergence regarding those?

Regards
Ingmar

On 16.10.2015 13:51, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> On 16 October 2015 at 09:19, Ingmar Schlecht 
> <ingmar.schlecht at unibas.ch <mailto:ingmar.schlecht at unibas.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     just a question regarding the Data Package standard.
>
>     We're currently in the process of setting up an open data data
>     platform for electricity market data and are considering to use
>     the Data Package standard (http://data.okfn.org/doc/data-package).
>
>     Now, my question is: Is there any relevant tool support already
>     for the Data Package standard except for the tools provided by
>     OKFN itself? Do you have any measurement how well accepted the
>     standard generally is?
>
>
> A bunch of people have provided support and are using Data Packages 
> other than Open Knowledge. Some examples of this are on the tools page:
>
> http://data.okfn.org/tools/
>
> Many of these tools have been provided by others. Specific groups 
> including rOpenSci who are taking on the R library, the ruby gem from 
> Gerald Bauer, csvlint from the ODI, a static Data Package based data 
> catalog <http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2014/08/19/datacentral.html> etc. We 
> have also seen several local and national government agencies using 
> the tools and the standard including statistics offices and open data 
> portal providers. We also see increasing uptake - much of which we 
> tend only discover after the fact. As a concrete example here is a 
> recent "out of the blue" notice that someone was using Data Packages 
> for specific use case in gov 
> <https://github.com/datasets/registry/issues/108>.
>
> If you'd like to know more, feel free to email me directly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
>
>     Best
>     Ingmar
>
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