Open Water Foundation / Learn CSV
This documentation provides resources to learn how to to use comma-separated-value (CSV) files for data, including examples with different programming languages.
This documentation has been written based on experience using CSV files at the Open Water Foundation and is intended to educate OWF staff, other developers, and clients that use CSV for data.
The remainder of this page includes the following sections:
- About the Open Water Foundation - author and maintainer of this documentation
- How to Use this Documentation - overview of main sections
- License - license for this documentation website
- Source Repository on GitHub - source files for this website
About the Open Water Foundation
The Open Water Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit social enterprise that focuses on developing and supporting open source software for water resources, so that organizations can make better decisions about water. OWF also works to increase publishing and use of open data to improve transparency and efficiency in sharing data.
See also other OWF learning resources.
How to Use this Documentation
The documentation is organized in order of information and tasks necessary to understand and use CSV for data management and sharing.
This documentation is not intended to be a full reference for CSV but focuses on important topics that will help understand technical concepts and be successful with CSV. The following main sections are included in this documentation:
- CSV Overview - includes resources and tutorials
- CSV Tools by Language
- Resources - various resources
License
The OWF Learn CSV website content and examples are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Source Repository on GitHub
The source files for this documentation are maintained in a GitHub repository: owf-learn-csv.
Release Notes
This documentation was last updated 2017-10-21. See the Release Notes in the GitHub Project.