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tool: CSV on the Web

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W3C standard for describing CSV data and its semantics using machine-readable metadata.

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Licence
W3C Document License
Cost
Free of charge
Source code
Open source
Domains
Cross-domain

About

CSV on the Web provides a vocabulary and metadata model for describing the columns, rows and semantics of CSV files. It can be used to make tabular structural metadata more machine-readable and to express metadata as JSON or RDF.

Where it fits in the FAIR Metroline

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Adoption and activity

169GitHub stars
final-release-WG-2016latest release · Feb 2016
May 2026last code change

From GitHub, 23 Oct 2026.

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