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by _pwalsh 2813 days ago
One of the authors of the Frictionless Data specifications here. The spec directly relevant to CSV is Table Schema [1], and we’ve also got some nice tools that leverage Table Schema and the family of specifications, such as goodtables [2].

[1] https://frictionlessdata.io/specs/table-schema/ [2] https://github.com/frictionlessdata/goodtables-py

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This looks interesting and useful. It might be a feature that wouldn't get used a lot but I've always felt that it would be great to have a 'unit' field to specify the physical units of the values. Have you ever discussed adding this as an optional field to the specification?
We’ve looked into it:

https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/issues/537

Feel free to add your use cases to that issue.