I personally found having all of the Fields listed to be beneficial to my work writing scrapers. If you do not wish to add them back to the template readme, please add them to some documentation elsewhere.
It may also be beneficial to tell scrapers to mention what the field is called within their data similar to what I have done with the Pomona readme, or for them to comment if they are unsure of the meaning, like I did with Butte's readme.
If you all want to keep it as is, so be it- but I won't be using that format.
Other potential changes:
Add a section for scrapers to add fields that are not listed, so that they are known and can be added to the dolt (if enough departments use them, and if the data is acceptable of course).
Further explanation of what is expected to be provided in How to locate the data source. All of my previous scrapers have just been me guessing what is meant by it, and currently do not follow any format.
Either make Time period of data it's own category, or combine it with Data Refresh Rate
Potential fields:
BookingNum
BookingDate
WarrantNum
BailAmount
SearchIncident
Sorry if this came out harshly, I'm just upset that it took me this long to figure out how to word it ;)
In regards to PR https://github.com/Police-Data-Accessibility-Project/Scrapers/pull/58
I personally found having all of the Fields listed to be beneficial to my work writing scrapers. If you do not wish to add them back to the template readme, please add them to some documentation elsewhere.
It may also be beneficial to tell scrapers to mention what the field is called within their data similar to what I have done with the Pomona readme, or for them to comment if they are unsure of the meaning, like I did with Butte's readme.
If you all want to keep it as is, so be it- but I won't be using that format.
Other potential changes:
Time period of data
it's own category, or combine it with Data Refresh RatePotential fields:
Sorry if this came out harshly, I'm just upset that it took me this long to figure out how to word it ;)