Tabular Data Package

File Format
Name	Tabular Data Package
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Databases Tabular Data Package

General description

This page describes Tabular Data Package, formerly known as Simple Data Format (but not related to Simple Data format by George H. Fisher). It is described as a "simple data publishing format for publishing and sharing data". It is created by the Data Protocols Team (in 2011?), whose manifesto is at http://dataprotocols.org/manifesto/. This does not however identify the Data Protocols Team or its affiliations.

The draft specification is at http://dataprotocols.org/tabular-data-package/. The format's focus is simplicity and web usage. It is based on CSV for the base data and JSON for schema, metadata and lined data aspects.

The original source of the specification, dataprotocols.org is now now Data Package at datapackage.org from Frictionless Data. Their specifications are also available on their GitHub.

Other information

There is no known Wikipedia page for the Data Protocols Team or this version of the Tabular Data Package.

Source code

• datapackage on GitHub

References

• datapackage.org
• Data Package GitHub repo.