Frictionless Data Community Call May 2024
On our last community call on May 30th, 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 Data Package standard and the Frictionless Specs. Read the announcement blog (opens new window) to know more about it.
# Working group discussion
The final Data Package v2 release is getting closer and we are really excited about it! The release will happen in the last week of June.
We only had a few issues left on the roadmap to discuss. So the call was slightly shorter than usual (and my choppy internet connection did not help!).
Here are the pending items:
- Adding a table property for the table dialect (see PR (opens new window))
- Data representation model
- Categorical data (linked to the data representation model discussion above)
- Metadata in Table Schema (see PR (opens new window))
While we discussed and progressed on the table property and the metadata in Table Schema, the data representation model and categorical data needed some extra thinking and discussion, so we agreed to continue the conversation on GitHub.
We also agreed we will discuss changes to implementations in the next call: Open Knowledge Foundation will take care of the Python Framework, Peter is already working on the R library, and Evgeny created a PR to add Data Package as an export format for Zenodo, Invenio RDM.
# Join us in June!
Next community call is on June 20th, exceptionally on the 3rd Thursday of the month instead of the last one. As this will be the last community call before the v2 Standard & Specs release, this call will be longer: 1,5 hour. We will use the time to review the documentation and discuss the next steps. 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 those who are putting a lot of thinking and hard work into the Data Package working group. Without you, all of this would not be possible.