Hi John,
Can you give an example of 1 of the datasets your trying to remap with ?
That would help clarify.
Are you a Statistician or Programmer or Both ?
Quick Notes:
JSON-stat format and semantics seems to be easily transferable to JSON-LD
(upon a quick inspection from my eyes)
JSON-LD is already used on
Data.gov and upcoming on Data.gov.uk and others.
Maybe working with Gregg Kellogg on a transform tool and processor between
JSON-stat and JSON-LD ?
https://json-ld.org/playground/
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/jsonld.js
Perhaps also
http://w3c.github.io/csvw/primer/ is interesting or useful for
you ?
Finally, OpenRefine 2.8 (download and check it out <http://openrefine.org/>)
has new Wikidata / Metadata features, but we still have more work to do in
other areas, here's just one
https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/issues/1269
-Thad