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What is needed to reuse data? #14
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This topic is closely related to #2.
In the context of figit and other tools, what would we ask for authors to put in a repo to get packaged up with the data? The dataprotocols project is working towards a standard data package description in data-package.json, There is some interesting discussion in frictionlessdata/datapackage#110 about use of data-package.json and package.jsonld.
Along with a README or other helpful files, an author could include a data package description file.
Since I think the concept will be confusing to many people, we could provide some minimum recommendations for what to include in a README as a first step, and then perhaps have pointers to more advanced methods (such as how create a package definition file).
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jbenet commentedon May 12, 2014
Hey @codersquid,
Have you tried
npm init? It's super simple, even for people who program very little. I will be building the equivalent data package registry tool once we converge on a standard(for a preview, see data + datadex, which are now part of the Dat Project, and will change a lot soon).
joyrexus commentedon Oct 28, 2014
@jbenet wrote:
Note also existing tooling such as dpm and datapackage-json.
Sidenote: curious about the relation between datadex and the dat-registry project?