SimpleDSP

SimpleDSP (簡易DSP) is a compact tab-separated format for describing record structures. It was originally specified in Japanese as part of the Metadata Information Sharing Guidelines, Chapter 6, produced circa 2011 under the Metadata Information Infrastructure Construction Project (メタデータ情報基盤構築事業), whose work was subsequently carried on by the Metadata Information Infrastructure Initiative (MI3) (メタデータ基盤協議会, Japan).

YAMA’s SimpleDSP implementation preserves full fidelity with the original specification, with an English translation available alongside the Japanese original.

At a Glance

• Tab-separated text format with UTF-8 encoding
• Description blocks delimited by [BlockID] headers
• Namespace declarations in a [@NS] block
• Seven columns per statement: Name, Property, Min, Max, ValueType, Constraint, Comment
• Value types: ID, literal, structured, IRI, empty (unconstrained)