CSV on the Web

CSV on the web (CSVW) is a standard for describing and clarifying the content of CSV tables.

CSVW adds a JSON “sidecar” to a CSV file that provide metadata defining it’s schema. This lets you express types, relate tables and disambiguate resources with URI templates.

I created csvw.org together with colleagues at Swirrl and the Office for National Statistics to help explain and promote the standard.

I also wrote an implementation of the standard in R that’s available on CRAN: csvwr.