DSPL stands for Dataset Publishing Language. It is a representation format for both the metadata (information about the dataset, such as its name and provider, as well as the concepts it contains and displays) and actual data (the numbers) of datasets. Datasets described in this format can be imported into the Google Public Data Explorer, a tool that allows for rich, visual exploration of the data.

This site hosts miscellaneous, open source content (i.e., schemas, example files, and utilities) associated with the DSPL standard. See our documentation site for more details on what DSPL is and how to use it. The utilities in this repository are documented at this site.

To build the tools, install minixsv, then use the setup.py script in tools/dspltools/. You can use pip to install these:

pip install -r tools/dspltools/requirements.txt
pip install tools/dspltools