United front for open, permissive, high quality CJK datasets and clients.

Cihai is a team, effort, united effort for incubating open, permissive, high quality CJK datasets and clients.

• cihai-handbook - convert your cjk dataset to datapackages-friendly format.
• Official client libraries. cihai-python a python client for cihai+datapackages datasets (cjklib style).
• Public datasets maintained by cihai team. See cihaidata-unihan on github.

Have a CJK dataset? Consider permissively licensing your dataset and adopting datapackages standards.

For an example of a datapackage + cihai enabled dataset, see https://github.com/cihai/cihaidata-unihan.

CJK Dataset Standards

Cihai CJK datasets follows dataprotocols conventions:

• datapackages format.
• datapackage.json format - has metadata for source file
• json table schema - datapackage.json schema information.
• simple data format - scripts/process.py produces data/unihan.csv
• (optional) PEP 301: python package format - python package installation.

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Changelog	http://cihai.readthedocs.org/en/latest/history.html