Frictionless Data Community Call April 2024
On our last community call was on April 25th, we continued discussing the Frictionless Standard update with community members. As a reminder, thanks to the generous support of NLnet (opens new window), the Frictionless core team, together with a working group composed of members of the community, is now working on a v2 of the Specs. Read the announcement blog (opens new window) to know more about it.
# Working group discussion
We are very excited we are getting closer to the final Data Package v2 release!
The first thing we talked about was the data representation model, and how to make distinction on data layers clearer. The discussion had started in GitHub PR 49 (opens new window), and was elevated to community discussion. The discussion is linked to the categorical data proposal that Kyle has put together in GitHub PR 62 (opens new window). What we want to do is to cut the ambiguity as much as possible, and make things explicit.
As Keith quite rightly pointed out, there are some aspects of the standards we are deciding upon without being totally sure about them. As a community we are leaning towards conservatism and avoiding breaking changes, but there are things we will need to try out as provisional and then either deprecate them if they don’t work or support them by the Standard. The fact that we are going to version the Standard is going to be very helpful in that process.
Versioning was actually supposed to be the main topic of the call, but the proposal we put together (opens new window) was actually approved by the working group before the call.
For a full overview of the items that the working group tackled on the call, you can have a look at our live tracker on GitHub (opens new window), or watch the recording linked here below.
A few issues were moved out of the draft release to be rather included in the final release (opens new window), which is planned for June. One example is versioning, which was discussed in the last call (opens new window). As versioning is a brand new element, it will require more time to be tackled. We are currently working on a solid proposal to discuss with the working group next month.
# Join us in May!
Next community call is on May 30th, join us to hear all the exciting news about the Frictionless Data Package (opens new window) update!
Do you have something you would like to present to the community at one of the upcoming calls? Let us know via this form (opens new window), or come and tell us on our community chat on Slack (opens new window)(also accessible via a Matrix bridge (opens new window) if you prefer to use an open protocol).
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
Here is the recording of the full call:
# Thank you
On a final note, we would like to thank all community members that joined the call and that keep all these discussions alive, and particularly to those who are putting a lot of thinking and hard work into the specs working group. Without you, all of this would not be possible.