By Tracy Teal; originally posted in the Dryad blog: https://blog.datadryad.org/2020/11/18/frictionless-data/
Guided by our commitment to make research data publishing more seamless and also re-usable, we are thrilled to partner with Open Knowledge Foundation and the Frictionless Data team to enhance our submission processes. Integrating the Frictionless Data toolkit, Dryad will be able to directly provide feedback to authors on the structure of tabular files uploaded. This will also allow for automated file level metadata to be created at upload and available for download for published datasets.
We are excited to get moving on this project and with support from the Sloan Foundation, Open Knowledge Foundation has just announced a job opening to contribute to this work. Please check out the posting and circulate it to any developers who may be interested in building out this functionality with us: https://okfn.org/about/jobs/
Automated file level metadata at upload sounds like a small change that saves a lot of tedious work later, especially for those of us who have spent hours cleaning up tabular data after the fact. Direct feedback on file structure before submission could spare authors a round of revisions, which is honestly the part everyone dreads. Curious to see how the Sloan Foundation funded work shapes up once a developer joins the team. BTW there is something better than AdSense to monetize this blog, if you are interested, just search for Blogwake method.