Open philipashlock opened 9 years ago
this sounds like a wonderful idea
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Philip Ashlock notifications@github.com wrote:
DCAT doesn't provide a way to specify character encoding as noted in the INSPIRE profile of DCAT https://ies-svn.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/metadata/wiki/INSPIRE_profile_of_DCAT-AP_-_Reference#Character-encoding. Some, including examples from Chicago https://data.cityofchicago.org/data.json, have attempted to include the character encoding as part of the mediaType but this breaks validation. As the INSPIRE profile notes, perhaps this should be an additional field in the distribution such as characterEncoding
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+1 for this. I just fielded a request from an end user looking for this information. I also think it would be a great field to add.
DCAT doesn't provide a way to specify character encoding as noted in the INSPIRE profile of DCAT. Some, including examples from Chicago, have attempted to include the character encoding as part of the
mediaType
but this breaks validation. As the INSPIRE profile notes, perhaps this should be an additional field in the distribution such ascharacterEncoding