Clarifications about Data Package properties (metadata)

[niconoe]

Hey @peterdesmet, I noticed the following sentence on the metadata documentation page:

It follows the Tabular Data Package specifications and includes default Data Package properties and specific VPTS-DP properties

There are also a few of those properties listed: name, id, created, profile, sources, contributors, resources.

If I'm not mistaken, the Data Package specs only requires the resources property, so I was wondering what we should do for v1, and what you wanted to express on that page. Do we want to enforce that a vpts-dp always provides name, id, created, profile, sources, contributors attributes (in addition toresources which is already required for all data packages, and our specific properties such as radar)?

Thanks a lot!

[peterdesmet]

The ones that are listed are probably a copy/paste from https://tdwg.github.io/camtrap-dp/metadata/ but only to provide a table of contents.

To really make the required, this needs to be added to vpts-dp-profile.json (see again how this is done in Camtrap DP). Regarding which ones: I need to review this, but I’m thinking created and radar. resources is already required indeed.

[peterdesmet]

Will not implement this, in favour of a simple flat format as described in #25.