CSVw - Data validation language

CSVw, aka CSV on the Web, is a data validation language created in 2014 by Ivan Herman.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/w3c/csvw

The CSV on the Web Working Group has developed standard ways to express useful metadata about CSV files and other kinds of tabular data.

Tags: dataValidationLanguage
CSVw is developed on GitHub and has 162 stars
Early development of CSVw happened in CSV on the Web Working Group and CSV on the Web Community Group
CSVw is written in JSON, CSV, HTML, Markdown, JavaScript, Bourne shell, SVG, XML, Ruby, HAML, CSS, Python, YAML
Read more about CSVw on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

{
  "@context": "http://www.w3.org/ns/csvw",
  "url": "countries.csv",
  "tableSchema": {
    "aboutUrl": "http://example.org/country/{code}",
    "columns": [{
      "titles": "country",
      "name": "code"
    },{
      "titles": "country group"
    },{
      "titles": "name (en)",
      "lang": "en"
    },{
      "titles": "name (fr)",
      "lang": "fr"
    },{
      "titles": "name (de)",
      "lang": "de"
    },{
      "titles": "latitude",
      "datatype": "number"
    },{
      "titles": "longitude",
      "datatype": "number"
    }]
  }
}