Re: [Json] Adding integers to JSON (Re: JSON Schema Language)

[Carsten Bormann <[e-mail]>]

> I would really like to see a JSON-like format emerge as an alternative to CSV because, I have spent too much time trying to analyze files that contain data separated from the context.

SenML, RFC 8428, was made for this.  Can be serialized in XML, EXI, JSON, CBOR.

> If I am doing science, I want files that look like this
> 
> { "TemperatureData" : {
>    "StartDate" : "2010-1-1",
>    "EndDate" : "2011-2-2",
>    "Location" : "Rome",
>    "Units" : "Centigrade",
>    "Channels" : [ "C1", "C2", "C3", "C4", 
>    "Readings" : [[ 20.2, 23.3, 44.3, 20.1 ... ] [34.3, 3.4 ...] ... ]
> 
> Not this
> 20.2, 23.3, 44.3, 20.1 ...
> 34.3, 3.4...
> …

SenML looks a bit different, but has the same kind of information content.
If you really want the arrays that are in your example, it would be an interesting exercise to extend SenML for that — up to now, the large organizations that use it have been happy with what we have.

Grüße, Carsten