Frictionless Data January 2022 Virtual Hangout
On January 27th, for the first Frictionless Data community call of the year, we heard a presentation on the Data Package Manager for CKAN (DPCKAN) from Francisco Alves - leader of the proactive transparency policy in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais.
You may remember Francisco and DPCKAN from the Frictionless Data Hackathon (opens new window) back in October 2021, where his team won the hack with this very project.
# So what is DPCKAN?
It all started with the will to publish all the raw data on the Fiscal Transparency portal of the State of Minas Gereis, which is built on a CKAN (opens new window) instance, as open data following the Frictionless standards.
Francisco and his team wanted to install a data package, and be able to work with it locally. They also wanted to have the ability to partially update a dataset already uploaded in CKAN without overwriting it (this particular feature was developed during the Hackathon). That’s how the Data Package Manager was born. It is now in active development.
# And what’s next?
Francisco and his team would like to:
- Make it possible to read a data package directly from CKAN,
- Make CKAN Datastore respect the Frictionless table schema types
- Have human readable metadata visualisation
- Contribute back upstream to Frictionless Data, CKAN, etc.
Franscisco also gave a quick demo of what the DPCKAN looks like. You can watch the full presentation (including the demo):
If you are interested in DPCKAN, come and talk to Francisco on Discord (opens new window)! You can also check out the presentation slides in this GitHub repository (opens new window).
# Other agenda items from our hangout
This year as well, we are helping organise the FOSDEM (opens new window) Thematic Track Open Research Tools & Technologies.
Join us on February 5th! Among the many interesting talks, you will have the opportunity to catch senior developer Evgeny Karev presenting the newest Frictionless tool: Livemark (opens new window).
Have a look at the programme (opens new window). The event is free of charge and there is no need to register. You can just log in the talks that you like.
# Join us next month!
Next community call is next year, on February 24th. We don’t have a presentation scheduled yet, so if you have a project that you would like to present to the community, this could be your chance! Email us if you have something in mind: [email protected].
You can sign up for the call already 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!