suggestion.json

{
  "refs": {
    "comment0": "Basically your conventions.json file contents",
    "comment1": "Here come the mappings between number (ref) and values",
    "comment2": "In the array, the cell N is for reference N",
    "comment3": "Country code 1 is Azerbaidjan in this example",
    "countries": [
      "Azerbaidjan",
      "Angola",
      "..."
    ],
    "weapons": [
      "Bomb",
      "Assault rifle",
      "..."
    ],
    "comment4": "It would be easier to create our own ref with all the types and subtypes building on the fileds with _txt",
    "targettypes": [
      "NGO",
      "Government",
      "Shop",
      "Ambassy"
    ]
  },
  "events": [
    {
      "comment": "We have to check if all IDs are INT, to save the quotes",
      "id": 201401236574,
      "comment2": "Numbers must not start with a leading zero!",
      "date": [
        2014,
        1,
        23
      ],
      "country": 4,
      "region": 5,
      "latlon": [
        45.123456,
        4.112233
      ],
      "comment3": "Maybe for booleans we can use 0/1 to save space again",
      "suicide": true,
      "comment4": "We combine attacktype1/2/3 in a single array",
      "attacktypes": [
        13
      ],
      "comment5": "The key is target type, the value is the subtype",
      "targettypes": {
        "7": 4,
        "14": 2
      },
      "comment6": "We combine the groups in a single array",
      "gnames": [
        "Maybe we could make it as our own ref",
        "Al Quaeda",
        "The funny clowns"
      ],
      "comment7": "For now, I'd drop the 'yes?' fields as we know that the full data we might use is small enough",
      "weapontypes": [
        2,
        3,
        5
      ],
      "nkill": 42,
      "nwound": 120
    },
    {
      "id": 201511036574,
      "date": [
        2015,
        11,
        3
      ],
      "comment": "etc, etc etc..."
    }
  ]
}