adopt this for our table schema?

[JackyQ2015]

Anyone like this to be integrated into OR:

http://frictionlessdata.io/specs/table-schema/

I like the idea to separate the schema and the data itself. It is more clean or easy for reuse. 

Or any comments/suggestion?

[Thad Guidry]

Let's also CC Dan Brickley and Rufus Pollock - 

   Guys, Do you have any additional comments here for us, Dan or Rufus ?

   I am just a wee bit worried about this thread from 2015 between both of you.

    http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-csv-wg/2015Aug/0004.html  

   Should OpenRefine support both CSV on the Web AND Data Package family spec ?

   Do we start with CSV on the Web / https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-metadata/ ?

    A good thing, bad thing ?

My opinion...until Dan or Rufus responds is this :

We probably want to try to use CSV on the Web (I think), which supports Schema.org and Linked Data in general.  But could do both as noted above question to Dan and Rufus...

https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-primer/#metadata

https://www.w3.org/TR/tabular-data-primer/#well-known-location 

 

The enhancement that we wanted / needed to do was have OpenRefine actually supporting CSV on the Web as an importer option (to include metadata) ... so why not just go all in :)  Our OpenRefine issue to work on: https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/1096

[JackyQ2015]

Rufus replied with following 2 spec

• Data Package spec: http://frictionlessdata.io/specs/data-package/ - includes some examples
• Table Schema spec: http://frictionlessdata.io/specs/table-schema/ - includes some examples

For the "Data Package" we can discuss separately(Put 2 together is too huge).  For the schema spec, Personally, I am in favour of the "Table Schema spec" above instead of W3C one. W3C maybe more official and cover more. But I feel frictionlessdata spec is more practical and also have java API which we need. It is more fit to  FOSS  like OpenRefine.

Thoughts?

[Thad Guidry]

I also like and prefer the Table Schema spec from a practical standpoint.

Its also not much of a leap to go from Table Schema spec to the CSVW.

As I said before, we can always do CSVW additionally later on.

-Thad

+ThadGuidry

[JackyQ2015]

Agree. Let's start with Table Schema to see how it can work with OpenRefine. 

Cheers