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Profile is a url rather than string

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Switch from: ``` "profile": "tabular-data-package" ``` ``` "profile": "https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/schemas/tabular-data-package.json" ``` ## Why? Reduce magic! See frictionlessdata/frictionlessdata.io#875 * Tools no longer have to go through some discovery mechanism to resolve schema...

rufuspollock

As @akariv suggested in https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/issues/685#issuecomment-643433683 > - Package resources - allow a package without resources Why? * You want to generate a package to describe a dataset which has metadata...

rufuspollock

As @akariv suggested in https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/issues/685#issuecomment-643433683 > - Resource path/data - allow a resource without data (or data that cannot be described with a URI) @akariv note you can already have...

rufuspollock

As @amercader wrote when working on ckanext-datapackager https://github.com/frictionlessdata/ckanext-datapackager/issues/59#issuecomment-364241283 > CKAN author name and maintainer name are not mandatory. The specs require title (wrongly IMO) so what happens if there is...

rufuspollock

Adding a version to profile attribute (or doing this via a "spec" namespace)

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v1 is here! Going forward, we will have to have ways to handling different spec versions, and specifically, implementors will need to be able to rely on some metadata for...

pwalsh

Add a `$schema` key, or similar, to Table Schema so it is machine identifiable

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This will help distinguish JSON Table Schemas from other types of JSON schema files. See [The "$schema" keyword](http://json-schema.org/latest/json-schema-core.html#anchor22)

Hypercubed

Specs make it impossible to document datasets in FTP as Data Packages

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The current specs for [Data Resources](https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/data-resource/#url-or-path) state that: > ### URL or Path > > A “url-or-path” is a string with the following additional constraints: > > * MUST either...

augusto-herrmann

Naming convention of additional properties in the descriptor

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In the table-schema.md spec it says: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/blob/master/specs/table-schema.md#descriptor > The descriptor MAY have the additional properties set out below and MAY contain any number of other properties (not defined in this...

cpina

# Overview ## Problem description In the JSON schema definition file for a Tabular Data Resource, [data-resource.json](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/frictionlessdata/specs/master/schemas/dictionary.json), the formal definition for a `dialect` property of a Resource is: "csvDialect": {...

iSnow

Units and scales (and currency) in Table Schema

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**STATUS:** * We had a Units spec - see #35 - which then got moved out but we're moving back in see https://github.com/frictionlessdata/specs/issues/537 * We then can reference this from...

rufuspollock