Hi All (and apologies for any cross posting), Today sees the alpha launch of a new initiative http://data.okfn.org/ based in Labs <http://okfnlabs.org/>. Its immediate goal is to make it as *simple as possible* to get the *data you want* into the *tool of your choice*. More details in the full blog post:
http://blog.okfn.org/2013/04/24/frictionless-data-making-it-radically-easier-to-get-stuff-done-with-data/ Please share with folks you think would be interested and it would be great to get people's thoughts and feedback on what's there so far. The initiative combines efforts in 3 complementary areas and follows up the small data post from Monday (these are key ingredients of a more "frictionless" data ecosystem, and especially a small data one): - "Standards <http://data.okfn.org/standards>": A few select standards focused on tabular data (specifically Data Package and Simple Data Format). Standards give us a common structure which is essential to tooling and integration. - Tooling and plugins <http://data.okfn.org/tools>: integrate into existing tooling and workflows. This work is at the earliest stage and the area where greatest help is needed<https://github.com/okfn/data.okfn.org/issues?labels=Tools&state=open> - Data <http://data.okfn.org/data> - key datasets prepared, curated, quality-checked and packaged ready to download or access (this also introduces the pattern we've developing for a while of storing the datasets on github <http://github.com/datasets>) This work is at an *early *stage and there's much to be done - from adding datasets <http://data.okfn.org/about/contribute> to developing tools<https://github.com/okfn/data.okfn.org/issues?labels=Tools&page=1&state=open>, to doing outreach. If you're interested please dive in - and I also suggest signing up to the labs mailing list at http://okfnlabs.org/contact/. Regards, Rufus
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