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Promote the Enum Labels and Ordering pattern to the Table Schema spec?

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[This pattern](https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/patterns/#table-schema-enum-labels-and-ordering) includes two additions to the Table Schema to facilitate working with categorical data across a broad range of commonly-used, analytic software. It is fully backward compatible, and would...

pschumm

I'm creating this thread in response to @pschumm 's comment [here](https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/issues/367#issuecomment-1912022529), so as to not pollute the original topic. > We are in the process of publishing a set of...

khusmann

Introduce a codeList property to the field descriptor

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We work a lot with surveydata and administrative data. In both cases files often contain fields where the values in the field should come from a limited list of possible...

djvanderlaan

Write down versioning / changing rules

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Hi all, the communication on the Frictionless specs update names it `v2` (version 2, see also #853 #857). The [announcement blog post](https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2023/11/15/frictionless-specs-update) also states (emphasis mine): > The modular approach...

peterdesmet

rtrim field attribute

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An `rtrim` attribute could be added to a Field, to indicate that trailing whitespace may be removed.

fomcl

`decimalChar`, `groupChar` attributes could be added to (probably) the CSV dialect to indicate the decimal separator and the thousand separator, respectively.

fomcl

skipBytes attribute

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Sometimes data files contain extra bytes that need to be ignored. For example, files sometimes start with a 3-byte Byte-Order-Mark ([BOM](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark)) that needs to be removed first. A `skipBytes` attribute...

fomcl

Ability to constraint number precision

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From @dafeder --- Any movement on this (#709), even in terms of an unofficial pattern people have been using? Building some tooling and using the table schema where it would...

roll

Frictionless Standards (v2). Live Tracker

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It’s a live tracker of the Frictionless Standards (v2) work. All the new change proposals will be posted here on a weekly basis. The [Data Package Working Group members](https://github.com/orgs/frictionlessdata/teams/data-package/members?query=) will...

roll

Support ignoreRows for TabularResource

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# Overview `Resource` specification is created to describe concrete data source with metadata. When we deal with concrete real world data sources there could be some corner case like commented...

roll