Column Description Guidance for Data.wa.gov Publishers

This table provides guidance on key elements of good column descriptions, which are required metadata on data.wa.gov.

You can download a Column Description Worksheet (which includes this guidance) from this dataset’s Attachments.

Guidance for generating other metadata (e.g., Title, Brief Description, Tags) can be found at https://data.wa.gov/Open-Data-Program-Documentation/General-Metadata-Guidance-for-Data-wa-gov-Publishe/5qzb-d5hq

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"wa-gov/column-description-guidance-for-datawagov-u3e5-g5ig\".\"column_description_guidance_for_datawagov\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.