RobLa-WMF added a comment.
This is a really cool idea, Yuri! Done correctly, this has the potential for establishing a de facto standard for how one represents tabular data in JSON. I'm assuming we're not the first people in the world that have thought of representing tabular data as JSON. Just based on my very quick set of searches, here's what I found: - http://dataprotocols.org/json-table-schema/ - https://www.w3.org/TR/csv2json/ - http://dataprotocols.readthedocs.io/en/latest/json-table-schema.html That's not to say anything qualitative about those alternatives relative to the format you propose; just my first impression of "stuff I should read" based on a quick skim of this. Could you tell me more about your research? The good news (for this) is that ".tab" doesn't have a mediatype associated with it in the Apache mime.types file <https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types> (which is always the first place I look when I'm creating a new file extension). The bad news is that the enwiki list of file formats <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats#Geographic_information_system> does show that ".tab" is currently associated with MapInfo files <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapInfo_TAB_format>. I don't think there's any widely-recognized, open, official registry for file extensions (is there?), and your proposal seems to have a more intuitive claim to ".tab". It would be neat to enlist the people who are writing specs in this area to help define the spec for our implementation. Is that something you can do, Yuri? TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T134426 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Yurik, RobLa-WMF Cc: RobLa-WMF, Danny_B, DannyH, StudiesWorld, Steinsplitter, Aklapper, Lydia_Pintscher, ekkis, Matanya, MarkTraceur, JEumerus, Thryduulf, Milimetric, MZMcBride, Bawolff, -jem-, gerritbot, Pokefan95, TerraCodes, intracer, ThurnerRupert, brion, Jdforrester-WMF, Eloy, TheDJ, Yurik, Zppix, Riley_Huntley, D3r1ck01, Izno, Luke081515, JAllemandou, Wikidata-bugs, aude, El_Grafo, Ricordisamoa, Shizhao, fbstj, Fabrice_Florin, Mbch331, Jay8g, Krenair, jeremyb _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
