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dat-ecosystem-archive / dat.json

The WIP specification for the dat.json meta format [ DEPRECATED - More info on active projects and modules at https://dat-ecosystem.org/ ]
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a way to contact the author #2

Closed juliangruber closed 8 years ago

juliangruber commented 8 years ago

should we leave the author field free form, to allow for something like Julian Gruber <julian@juliangruber.com> or https://juliangruber.com or @juliangruber etc, or should we standardize this more and have something like .author.name & .author.email?

okdistribute commented 8 years ago

i'd say lets not reinvent the wheel and use the way authors are described in this: http://specs.frictionlessdata.io/data-packages/#recommended-fields

the simplest way "Joe Bloggs <joe@bloggs.com>" also happens to be the same as it is in package.json files, so that's pretty convenient!

juliangruber commented 8 years ago

gotcha! how does this look? https://github.com/juliangruber/dat.json/blob/master/README.md

joehand commented 8 years ago

That looks good! Down the line, we may want to add the "contributors" or similar. Right now the author is the person that can write to the hyperdrive, but multiwriter may blur that line a bit.

That was one confusing thing when I was making some datapackages - I was the "author" but the data came from another source (so it wasn't actually my data).

okdistribute commented 8 years ago

yeah that makes sense.

juliangruber commented 8 years ago

great!