Spine Metadata Description
This is the metadata description for Spine, edited from https://frictionlessdata.io/specs/data-package/.
Required properties
title
One sentence description for the data sources.
sources
The raw sources of the data. Each source must have a
title
property and optionally apath
property. Example:"sources": [{ "title": "World Bank and OECD", "path": "http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD" }]
contributors
The people or organisations who contributed to the data. Must include
title
and may includepath
,email
,role
andorganization
. Example:"contributors": [{ "title": "Joe Bloggs", "email": "joe@bloggs.com", "path": "http://www.bloggs.com", "role": "author" }]
Role is one of
author
,publisher
,maintainer
,wrangler
, orcontributor
.created
The date this data was created or put together, in ISO8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM)
Optional properties
description
A description of the data. Describe here how the data was collected, how it was processed etc.
The description MUST be markdown formatted – this also allows for simple plain text as plain text is itself valid markdown. The first paragraph (up to the first double line break) should be usable as summary information for the package.
spine_results_metadata
Key contains results metadata (described in a separate document).
keywords
An array of keywords
homepage
A URL for the home on the web that is related to this data package.
name
Name of the data package, url-usable, all-lowercase string.
id
Globally unique id, such as UUID or DOI
licenses
Licences that apply to the data. Each item must have a
name
property (Open Definition license ID) or apath
property and may containtitle
. Example:"licenses": [{ "name": "ODC-PDDL-1.0", "path": "http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/", "title": "Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0" }]
temporal
Temporal properties of the data (if applicable). Example using DCMI Period Encoding Scheme:
"temporal": { "start": "2000-01-01", "end": "2000-12-31", "name": "The first year of the 21st century" }
spatial
Spatial properties of the data (if applicable). Example using DCMI Point Encoding Scheme:
"spatial": { "east": 23.766667, "north": 61.5, "projection": "geographic coordinates (WGS 84)", "name": "Tampere, Finland" }
unitOfMeasurement
Unit of measurement. Can also be embedded in
description
.