Toward a Frictionless Data FuturePRESENTED BYJo Barrattjo.barratt@okfn.org (@jobarratt/@okfnlabs)AT3rd Research Data Network - St Andrews University - 30 November 2016

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International non-profit founded in 2004

Who we are● Vision

o A world where open knowledge is ubiquitous, enabling citizens and organizations to create insights that drive change on global and local challenges, combat injustice and inequality and hold governments and corporations to account.

● Missiono Open up all essential, public interest information

and see it used to create insight that drives positive change

o Build communities, tools and skills to empower individuals and organizations to use open information to create insights that drive change.

Widely adopted - over 20 national governments

and 60+ local governments & cities

ckan.org/instances

£4m in 15mins

Frictionless Data is…● Lightweight specifications for “packaging” datasets● Integrations for loading datasets into tools and platforms

relevant to researchers

The Goals...● Introduce a significant, measurable improvement in how research

data is shared, consumed, and analyzed.● Make it easier to maintain and improve data quality.

The Problem

Treemap of issues …

Legal barriers

(open data, sharing agreements etc)

Data Quality

Hard to find

Interoperability

No tool integration

Cargo loading ~1955

Manual, Slow, Costly

(and Dangerous)

Data is Shipping Pre-

Containerization

Containerization

Standards- Standards (a few, simple ones)- Tools (primarily for integration)

- Documentation- Datasets

Data Containerizatio

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Key Principles1. Simplicity

2. Web Oriented

3. Existing Tools

4. Open

5 Distributed

Tabular Data Package

Data Package JSON Table Schema CSV

http://frictionlessdata.io/guides/tabular-data-package/

http://frictionlessdata.io/guides/data-package/http://frictionlessdata.io/guides/json-table-schema/

Tabular Data Package

Tooling …

Data Package

Tabular Data Package

JSON Table Schema CSV

Toole.g. import to R, SQL etc

Toole.g. data checking ala GoodTables

Validationhttp://goodtables.okfnlabs.org

Validation

Continuous Validation ● If you’re working in a group, you need continuous validation…

for data!● In < 1 hour, we integrated elements (datapackage.json + Python

libraries + GoodTables API) to support continuous data validation

http://uk-25k.datadashboards.io/

Platform Integrations

Partners

View more: http://frictionlessdata.io/partners/

Dataship

YOUR RESEARCH

ORG

● Project website: http://frictionlessdata.io/● Specifications: http://specs.frictionlessdata.io/● GitHub: https://github.com/frictionlessdata/● User Stories:

http://frictionlessdata.io/user-stories/

● Newsletter: http://frictionlessdata.io/get-involved/#newsletter

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