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by geraldbauer 2805 days ago
FYI: The (tabular) datapackage is great / fantastic but one layer up the stack.

See https://github.com/csv11/csvpack for real-world data package examples.

By the way, the tabular data csv dialect specification - is a great start/initiative (mostly a 1:1 copy from the python parser :-), really - would need an update, for more options, to reflect the reality of the csv formats out there. The big insight and breakthrough - csv is NOT one spec or format - but various flavors / formats / dialect - let the computer (that is, csvreader library) handle it.