The main features of the Converter library are:

• open virtually any kind of local or remote source dataset, at the moment only Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx) spreadsheets and CSV files are supported
• enter metadata for source datasets
• support semantic match using categories and contexts
• support column mapping and string operations on columns and custom text to create target datasets with different structure and fields
• support virtually any target format of the converted dataset, at the moment only the CITADEL common POI format using JSON and MyNeighbourhood format using CSV
• generated target dataset validation, at the moment only according to the CITADEL common POI schema
• support uploading the generated dataset in CKAN
• customizable configuration to tailor CSV parsing options, contexts and categories
• multilingual, at the moment only English and Italian are fully supported
• easy to plug your favourite logging framework