Jupyter and GitHub - alternative file format

Feature / Format Matrix (as a Markdown table in a JEP?)

  • Name, Source URL, Spec, Docs URL
  • Required features:
    • Binary outputs (that are stable for the future)
    • Notebook metadata
    • Cell metadata
    • Renders read-only with just JS (is this a requirement?)
    • Line-diffable (with indentation)
      • nbdime is an existing solution for diffing notebooks written in Python
    • Source-editable
  • Maybe post additional features here prefixed with e.g.?:
    • REQUIRED:
    • NICETOHAVE:

Linked Data for Linked Research
Neither YAML-LD nor Markdown-LD are yet things. JSON-LD metadata would be great to have; as these are graphs of resources that link to other resources (#LinkedData, #LinkedResearch, #LinkedReproducibility). There have been some discussions regarding notebook-level and cell-level linked data.

  • STATUSQUO: Embedded JSON is parseable by search engines with just a JSON parser

Add it to Jupytext
Is there any reason that any new (pre-JEP) format cannot be prototyped in Jupytext?