[open-science] How should we publish survey/tabular data? A Panton Paper?

Peter Murray-Rust pm286 at cam.ac.uk
Sun Jul 17 08:08:58 UTC 2011


Completely agreed. It should be relatively simple to tie up the apparent
file suffixes and the content. Of course files called *.dat won't do much
for us. But a *.CSV should read into a CSV library. We can probably detect
that a *.gif reads into a GIF library.

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Frey J.G. <J.G.Frey at soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> Peter
> How about an automated check data (file) format service? Difficult but
> useful!? Just for the very simple data vs image etc
> Jeremy Frey
>
>
>

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Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
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