Open nickynicolson opened 7 months ago
Thanks for the question/remark, @nickynicolson!
I haven't tested, but we should already be able to access the content of this field like any other one, with something like:
dynamic_properties = row.data["http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/dynamicProperties"]
The dynamic_properties
will then contains the data as a simple Python string, that would need further processing by your code.
Full example, if the data contains JSON, as suggested by TDWG:
dynamic_properties_str = row.data["http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/dynamicProperties"]
dynamic_properties = json.loads(dynamic_properties_str)
In theory, python-dwca-reader could help its users by doing the json.loads()
behind the scenes, but I am nor really in favor, because:
Does that help? Thanks again for reaching out!
The DWCA standard supports "dynamic properties" which enable the mobilisation of "additional measurements, facts, characteristics, or assertions about the record": https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/#dwc:dynamicProperties This feature request is perhaps connected to issue #76 (assigning of column types) but could these properties (which are recommended to be supplied in key value format) be handled by dwca reader?