Frictionless Data April 2021 Virtual Hangout
On our last Frictionless Data community call on April 29th we had an interactive session with our great Frictionless Data Fellows: Daniel Alcalá López, Kate Bowie, Katerina Drakoulaki, Anne Lee, Jacqueline Maasch, Evelyn Night and Samantha Wilairat.
The Fellows are early career researchers recruited to become champions of the Frictionless Data tools and approaches in their field. During the nine months of their fellowship, which started in August 2020, the Fellows learned how to use Frictionless tools in their domains to improve reproducible research workflows, and how to advocate for open science. It was a real pleasure to work with this amazing cohort. Sadly the fellowship is coming to an end, but we are sure we will hear a lot from them in the future.
You can learn more about them here (opens new window), and read all the great blogs they wrote here (opens new window).
If you would like to hear directly from the Fellows about their experience with Frictionless Data and what the fellowship meant for them, you can have a look at the presentation they made during the community call here below:
# Other agenda items from our hangout
csv,conf,v6 (opens new window) is happening on May 4-5. It is free and virtual - register here (opens new window). There are two Frictionless sessions:
- May 4th: Frictionless Data workshop led by the Reproducible Research fellows, don’t miss the opportunity to meet the Fellows again!
- May 5th: Frictionless Data for Wheat by Simon Tyrrell
Full programme here: https://csvconf.com/speakers (opens new window)
# News from the Community
Oleg Lavrovsky presented instant APIs for small Frictionless Data-powered apps. Here (opens new window) is an example app developed during the latest Swiss OpenGLAM hackathon. To know more about it, you can also check:
- The source code (opens new window) which uses DataFlows (opens new window) for the aggregation, and the Pandas Data Package reader (opens new window) as the basis for filtering.
- The project page (opens new window) and slides which outline the motivation to collect and homogenize electronic art archives.
- An earlier attempt (opens new window) which involves a city tree catalogue. The team is also building on this approach in several projects at cividi (opens new window).
# Join us next month!
Our next meeting will be on May 27th. We will hear a presentation from Simon Tyrrell on his Tool Fund project - Frictionless Data for Wheat. You can sign up here (opens new window).
Do you want to share something with the community? Let us know when you sign up!
# Call recording:
On a final note, here is the recording of the full call:
As usual, you can join us on Discord (opens new window) or Twitter (opens new window) to say hi or ask any questions. See you there!