Format

[thedamon]

One of the most important things to determine is what the format ultimately will be..

My feeling is that it should be a text based format for ease of transferrability. i feel like JSON will probably give us a lot of flexibility and make it easy to integrate/use the data.

Benjamin noted a few things

Is there a way to re-use git/npm/egg style compilations of data, so that there is a sane structure of plain text files? These are easy to work with/reformat into csv/json/xml, etc, and we will need many adapters

I honestly have no idea what these are, or what that all means. it could be worth looking into, though.

Thoughts?

[bernfarr]

I can't grok what's being said here. Are you suggesting that we have a Git repository that's a JSON-based dataset? And that we use npm to 'coagulate' that data into a form ready for processing?

Bewest, can you explain what you're thinking in a little more detail?