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 a path 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 include path, email, role and organization. Example:

"contributors": [{
  "title": "Joe Bloggs",
  "email": "joe@bloggs.com",
  "path": "http://www.bloggs.com",
  "role": "author"
}]

Role is one of author, publisher, maintainer, wrangler, or contributor.

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 a path property and may contain title. 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.