Open Knowledge International Annual Report, 2017
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Summary:
"Message from Leadership
The past year has been a year of strengthening foundations and growth for Open Knowledge International (OKI). Looking ahead, we are wiser and learning from experience, while reviewing our aim of leading the forefront of the open knowledge movement. We have dedicated time to ensure the strategic and strengthening visions became evident, and now we see that our efforts are reaping success in variable ways.
...Highlights from our projects
FRICTIONLESS DATA
Frictionless Data is a collection of lightweight specifications and tooling for effortless collection, sharing, and validation of data. After close to 10 years of iterative work on the specifications themselves, and over a year of fine-tuning, we were delighted this year to announce the release of the Frictionless Data specifications V1.0, including Table Schema and Data Package. Through our Tool Fund we have been able to support the community building on this work to build a robust set of pre-built tooling in Python, R, Javascript, Ruby, Java, PHP, clojure, Julia, SPSS and Go...."