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Spine metadata description

Erkka Rinne edited this page Sep 23, 2021 · 1 revision

This is the metadata description for Spine, edited from https://frictionlessdata.io/specs/data-package/.

Required properties

title

One sentence description for the data

sources

The raw sources of the data. Each source must have a title property and optionally a path property. Example

"sources": [{
  "title": "World Bank and OECD",
  "path": "http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD"
}]

contributors

The people or organisations who contributed to the data. Must include name and may include path, email, role and organization. Example

"contributors": [{
  "title": "Joe Bloggs",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "path": "http://www.bloggs.com",
  "role": "author"
}]

Role is one of author, publisher, maintainer, wrangler, or contributor.

created

The date this data was created or put together, in ISO8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM)

Optional properties

keywords

An array of keywords

homepage

A URL for the home on the web that is related to this data package.

name

Name of the data package, url-usable, all-lowercase string.

id

Globally unique id, such as UUID or DOI

licenses

Licences that apply to the data. Each item must have a name property (Open Definition license ID) or a path property and may contain title. Example

"licenses": [{
  "name": "ODC-PDDL-1.0",
  "path": "http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/",
  "title": "Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0"
}]

temporal

Temporal properties of the data (if applicable). Example using DCMI Period Encoding Scheme

"temporal": {
  "start": "2000-01-01",
  "end": "2000-12-31",
  "name": "The first year of the 21st century"
}

spatial

Spatial properties of the data (if applicable). Example using DCMI Point Encoding Scheme

"spatial": {
  "east": 23.766667,
  "north": 61.5,
  "projection": "geographic coordinates (WGS 84)",
  "name": "Tampere, Finland"
}