Author here. As for 1.: CSV files are encoded as a stream, so they can be as large as needed. JSON is dumped as a whole from memory, I'd be keen to see if some

Author here. As for 1.: CSV files are encoded as a stream, so they can be as large as needed. JSON is dumped as a whole from memory, I'd be keen to see if someone has written a streaming JSON encoder. 2.: Consuming, no. I normally load them in a browser with D3 or jQuery to feed them into a graphic or other interface. 3.: I'd argue this is out of scope for dataset, but simpler REST API makers would definietly be cool. Check https://github.com/okfn/webstore https://github.com/okfn/webstore - this is what dataset came out of, and it makes somewhat RESTish APIs.