mychapati / registry

A registry of Data Package Profiles

Data Package Registry

This is a basic (minimum viable product) registry of profiles of Data Packages. In the future, a more sophisticated implementation may replace it. See here for the rationale behind it.

How it works

• The registry is maintained as a github repository with a single registry.csv file
• Apart from the header, each row in registry.csv represents one Data Package Profile. It has the following keys:
  • id: a locally unique identifier for the profile (eg: "openspending")
  • title: a human-readable name for the profile (eg: "Open Spending Data Package")
  • schema: a URL to a valid JSON schema, which validates whether Data Packages conform to this profile (eg: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dataprotocols/schemas/master/data-package.json)
  • specification: a URL to the human-readable specification of the profile (eg: http://dataprotocols.org/tabular-data-package/)
• To begin with, it contains two profiles: "Data Package" and "Tabular Data Package".
• To add new profiles, create a pull request meeting the above requirements.