Allow XML, JSON, and RDF Data Resource

frictionlessdata / datapackage

Data Package is a standard consisting of a set of simple yet extensible specifications to describe datasets, data files and tabular data. It is a data definition language (DDL) and data API that facilitates findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIR) of data.

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Allow XML, JSON, and RDF Data Resource #982

Closed nichtich closed 3 weeks ago

nichtich commented 1 month ago

Data Resources should not be limited to tabular data but also allow arbitrary XML files, JSON files, and RDF files. This requires extension of fields:

type with xml, json, and rdf in addition to table.
format for instance with xml (XML), json, yaml, ndjson, jsonl, json5... (JSON), ttl, nt, xml... (RDF)
schema to reference an XML Schema (for XML), JSON Schema (for JSON), SHACL schema (for RDF)

peterdesmet commented 1 month ago

Agree.

type: is a string with an enum that requires extension with new values
format: is a string, no enum. so this can already be populated with xml, etc.
schema: this is likely more complex, as it is specifically designed to reference a table schema.

nichtich commented 1 month ago

schema: this is likely more complex, as it is specifically designed to reference a table schema.

If type is not table, the semantics of schema field is not defined and the field can already contain an URL-or-Path, so an extension should be backwards-compatible.