[uf-discuss] Microformat for statistical (tabular) data

Xavier Badosa xbadosa at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 05:19:15 PDT 2008


Is there anyone working on a microformat for statistical information?
Such a microformat could be used to add more semantics to <table>s.
For example, the unit of the data, the time of reference, update time,
etc.

Some existing standards in the field to consider:

SDMX
http://www.sdmx.org

COSSI
http://www.stat.fi/org/tut/dthemes/drafts/cossi_en.html

Also:

DDI
http://www.ddialliance.org

XBRL
http://www.xbrl.org

X.


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