{"id":5,"date":"2016-01-07T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/?p=5"},"modified":"2016-01-07T08:05:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T08:05:56","slug":"welcome-to-the-csvw-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/2016\/01\/07\/welcome-to-the-csvw-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the CSVW Community Group!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/\">CSVW Community Group<\/a> was created by members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/2013\/csvw\/wiki\/Main_Page\">CSVW Working Group<\/a> to provide an ongoing home for discussion of the CSVW\u00a0specifications, their use and implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Working Group, this Community Group\u00a0is primarily email-based,\u00a0and open to all interested parties. Working Groups, as the name suggests, are\u00a0<em>much<\/em> harder work, and \u00a0CSVW was no exception. As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2013\/05\/lcsv-charter\">CSVW\u00a0WG charter<\/a> draws to a close following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/blog\/news\/archives\/5232?pk_campaign=feed&amp;pk_kwd=csv-on-the-web-recommendations-published\">publication of the CSV specs as W3C recommendations<\/a>\u00a0it is important to have\u00a0somewhere on the Web that is a focal point for <em>using<\/em> these specifications, rather than just creating them.<\/p>\n<p>It is possible that ideas for new W3C specifications (and Working Groups), may arise from the Community Group, but we also encourage broader collaboration amongst\u00a0publishers and implementors. We would particularly like to hear from users of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/2015\/REC-tabular-metadata-20151217\/#transformation-definitions\">transformation definition<\/a> mechanism, and\u00a0of any efforts that integrate or extend the specifications to work alongside related\u00a0technologies such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/r2rml\/\">R2RML<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CSVW Community Group was created by members of the CSVW Working Group to provide an ongoing home for discussion of the CSVW\u00a0specifications, their use and implementation. Unlike the Working Group, this Community Group\u00a0is primarily email-based,\u00a0and open to all interested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/2016\/01\/07\/welcome-to-the-csvw-community-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/csvw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}