Package EUROEVOL dataset

[danfowler]

Raw data: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1469811/

This dataset has data in filenames like EUROEVOL09-07-201516-34_FaunalSpecies.csv. It also has field-level metadata in filenames like Manning_FaunalSpecies_fields.csv specifying allowable values (e.g. ENUM ('Equal ratios','Majority female','Majority male','Not stated/recorded')) and column types (INTEGER (11)). There is also a "Relationships" column that specifies Foreign Key relationships. This kind of metadata is relatively straightforward to specify as a JSON Table Schema in a Data Package.

Here is one way to "package" this EUROEVOL dataset (http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1469811/).

• [ ] Download EUROEVOL*.csv files into a /data folder
• [ ] Download Manning_*.csv files into an /archive folder
• [ ] Write a script (in /scripts folder) to generate basic datapackage.json based on inferred types
  • Guide (in Python): http://frictionlessdata.io/guides/creating-tabular-data-packages-in-python/
• [ ] Manually edit datapackage.json
  • [ ] Correct any incorrectly inferred types
  • [ ] Covert per-field metadata in Manning_*.csv files to JSON Table Schema equivalent

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