Proposed Revisions

From @waylonflinn on September 21, 2016 17:40

@danfowler requested that I get more involved here. I caution him to be more careful what he asks for, in future.

This is a short list of items that have come up as I worked through needs at dataship. Some involve changes for consistency, some are extensions.

sources

For consistency rename web to url. This is about using a consistent property name for URLs. Same thing likely applies to author and contributor, but I haven’t done anything with those yet.

homepage (string) -> web (object)

Change the homepage string to an object with a name property and a url property. Also rename it from homepage to web. This came up in the context of hosting datapackages for media companies (specifically five thirty eight). This is used to link back to a page published on their site that highlights the data. Likely to come up a lot when serving this segment.

license -> licenses

This needed to be an array for us.

created

This new field is an ISO 8601 string describing when the datapackage was created, in UTC. 2014-04-14T15:21:00.000Z

Happy to discuss any of these further.

Copied from original issue: frictionlessdata/dpm#57

[jpmckinney]

What was wrong with homepage? Homepage has a more specific meaning than web.

[pwalsh]

• homepage -> web: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/pull/337/commits/bb09a6daae04dcfc203776c337bb16aee2e2cdce (but using path and not url for the object version)