frictionlessdata/website

Merged into https://github.com/frictionlessdata/frictionlessdata.io

Frictionless Website

This is the new FrictionlessData.io website to be released in 2020. It reflects the recent updates made to Frictionless Data project setup and brand.

Development

$ npm install
$ npm start

Deployment

New commits into the master branch will be automatically deployed to GitHub Pages by a workflow.

website's Issues

[Vssue]Frictionless Public Utility Data - A Pilot Study

https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2020/03/18/frictionless-data-pilot-study/

Search box in specs.frictionlessdata.io not working (as I expected)

Steps to reproduce:
-Open https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/#overview
-In the search box type "zip" and press enter

Expected:
-List of pages with the term "zip" or a "no pages contain the term zip"

Actual:
-Nothing happens :-(

After doing this I realised that if I type "a" (or a single letter) it shows the list of headers. Or if I type "adding" it shows the headers having "adding" in the title. But this is not what I expected initially obviously.

footer overlap

Hi all, the footer gets overlapped by the sidebar on some pages, eg:

nav bar menu options overlap

Hi all, when one clicks on several options in the nav bar, their drop down menu options overlap:

Create links to the Frictionless Matrix Space

Overview

The Frictionless Discord Server has been effectively bridged (think of it like a two-way mirror of every message) to the Frictionless Matrix Space.

Now we need to add a link somewhere on the frictionless.io website so that people can be aware of it and use the one of their own preference (Discord or Matrix).

I suggest adding a Matrix icon on the top right corner. The "Chat" menu option should also link to both Discord and Matrix.

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re-close this issue tracker

We should re-close this issue tracker once we have finished the last website fixes. I'm opening this now to remind us later :-)

Long shot idea: moving toolfund/fellow to the main website

Overview

It's a long shot but I think it might have sense to merge contents of toolfund (as a summary paragraph on the adoption page) and fellows (as Fellowship top navbar item) to the main website.

Reasons:

• I think it's been hidden from the general public because it's basically invisible from the main site and uses a subdomain. TBH for myself I didn't know that something was happening on the fellows. And I'm not really new to the project =)
• They are two additional websites to style/logo/etc. Having separate subsites makes sense for low-lever tech docs generated from the codebase repositories but for content-only user-facing I think it might be an overkill. It's easier to manage it on the main website.

Reasons summary: increase their visibility to the general public

Update the contribute page

This is out of date.

Make the content similar to this: https://framework.frictionlessdata.io/docs/development/contributing

Is there any other info we want to include?

(https://frictionlessdata.io/contribute)

The site is down

Hi @lauragift21, could you please take a look - https://frictionlessdata.io/

Icons not showing

Overview

Some icons are not showing in /blog (see picture here below).

Drop-down menus get stuck sometimes

This was an issue before that was resolved, but it seems to be happening again.

This doesn't happen for me every time I click on a menu, only sometimes. (I've seen it on Chrome).

Update the reproducible research page

Several updates are needed:

• team members
• tool fund members
• fellows
• pilots
• general information

Update the staging icons/graphics on website/libraries

Overview

Currently, we use some prototypes:

• https://staging.frictionlessdata.io/
• https://libraries.frictionlessdata.io/

Broken links in blogs

Broken links in the following blogs:

https://blog.okfn.org/2016/02/01/google-funds-frictionless-data-initiative-at-open-knowledge/:

1. Data Packages(link text): http://data.okfn.org/
2. Comprehensive country codes(link text): http://data.okfn.org/data/core/country-codes
3. Fiscal Data Package(link text): http://fiscal.dataprotocols.org/
4. Data OKFN(link text): https://data.okfn.org/

https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2021/04/13/data-package-for-intermine/

1. here(link text): https://github.com/intermine/im-docs/blob/markdown/docs/webapp/frictionless/index.md

Add link to datasets list site on the Adoption page

See frictionlessdata/frictionlessdata.io#375 (comment)

list of blog authors to be fixed

Hi @lauragift21! Here's a list of all the blogs noting where the author needs to be changed.
Also, for the case studies, they all have "interviewees" but this information isn't being shown (it is present in the metadata). Can it be shown?

Thanks!

Add Validata to adoption page

Overview

OpenDataFrance has created Validata, a data validation tool that uses f11d's TableSchema. I think it should be present in the adoption page.

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Not listed as tool fund partner

Hello!

I have been involved with the implementation of data package and table schema libraries for R language, on behalf of okfn greece, but not listed as tool fund partner here: https://frictionlessdata.io/team/#tool-fund-partners

Related announcements:

• https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2017/10/27/open-knowledge-greece/
• https://blog.okfn.org/2017/07/03/frictionless-data-introducing-our-tool-fund-grantees/

Fix the website's layout (including blog)

Overview

https://frictionlessdata.io/

update the tooling section on the homepage

...on the homepage to reflect the current tooling offerings.
Lead: @roll

causa natura blog folder in wrong spot

Hi! There is a blog folder for causa-natura blog here in this collections-data blog that shouldn't be there.

Update content in the Learn section

Let's discuss exactly what we need to update. Most of the updates are necessary since the release of Frictionless Framework.

Overall: we probably need to rearrange some of this content

Guide

• Needs a content overhaul
• What is missing?
• What needs to be removed?

Table Schema

• This is repetitive with info in the guide section
• Make this longer?

Data Package

• There are some dead links here
• Check the info that was in those dead links & see if we want to reuse it (should be on github somewhere)
• I have no idea what Views is 😕

Standard SEO practises to enforce

We want to make a research on the standard SEO practices to enforce on FD so that when related search is made on google, FD ranks top.

Tasks

• List of SEO best practices

Add link to Matrix

Now that we have a Matrix bridge, we should have a link to that from the Frictionless website.

Add all the pilots/projects/etc to the adoption page

Currently, these display blogs that have been tagged as a case study or as a pilot.

Suggestions for improving these pages:

• The pages could use an intro paragraph
• The articles could be displayed in a nicer format (optional?)
• Add all the projects
• Add all the pilots

Lilly can add the intro paragraph.

Let's chat here about if anyone has ideas for displaying the blogs in a nicer format.

Add fellows cohort 3 to people page

... to the fellows section

[Vssue]Joining the Frictionless Data Team

https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2020/03/20/joining-the-frictionless-data-team/

Broken icons on People page

Looks like they are hotlinked to an external image instead of serving it ourselves:

Typo in TEDDINET blog

Overview

Typo:
https://frictionlessdata.io/blog/2017/12/19/dm4t/#getting-insight-from-data-using-python-libraries
posisbe, avialable

Advertise community call on website

We should advertise the fact that we are doing community calls on the website and add a link to the community call form (https://forms.gle/kSp5SrdKqZhf4sWf7). Currently it is hard for people who are not in the community chat to come across it.

homepage updates

There are several proposed changes we can make:

Update the code example

• We need to change the code example on the homepage to show Frictionless-py instead of datapackage-py code.

Lead: @roll

Update the tooling section

• to reflect the current tooling offerings.
• Sara suggests that we remove this whole section (there is a dedicated page for this and we can clearly see it in the top menu).
  Lead: @roll

Other section changes (to be discussed)

• Sara suggests removing the “For anyone who works with data” section as it is unhelpful to her.
• Sara suggests moving the “Data Integration and Management” - it is not in the right place here.
• Check the used by section.

Review the navigation

User reports that the navigation is confusing. From Chris: "where am I? There are missing levels of hierarchy"

Make the main site cohesive with the specs site & with the framework docs site

Right now we have 3 sites that don't look much a like or aren't linked together well.

• Add links to/from all these sites
• Update styling on Framework site to match main FD site
• Update styling on Specs site to match main FD site

Gathering feedback of the ODI-funded website/documentation update

Overview

As a part of a documentation improvements project funded by ODI, we have created low-level documentation portals and updated the main Frictionless Website in #186.

The list of documentation work done:

The low-level documentation portals are available on the "Software" page of the main website. Posting links here just for convenience.

• https://frictionlessdata.io/

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• https://framework.frictionlessdata.io/
• https://repository.frictionlessdata.io/
• https://libraries.frictionlessdata.io/
• https://components.frictionlessdata.io/

After these changes, the main website plays a role of a high-level Frictionless Data overview and "landing page" while low-level documentation portals are meant for technical users and contributors and contain a great deal of low-level technical documentation.

We are looking forward to hearing from Frictionless Core Team and Community. What do you think? Is it getting better structured and easier to understand? Please share your thoughts.

Update the support page

• remove gitter link, add discord
• check text
• add more details

Leads: Lilly & @sapetti9

(https://frictionlessdata.io/support/)

Update blog page

• users have asked for an RSS feed (frictionlessdata/frictionlessdata.io#603)
• this could be redesigned
• filters

Let's discuss any redesign thoughts/ideas here.

new code example on homepage

We need to change the code example on the homepage to show Frictionless-py instead of datapackage-py code.

Lead: @roll

Update team page

• Display faces in a non-hierarchical way
• Add new people
• Remove past people (?)
• Need to add a real contact form or email address

Let's discuss here if we want to display avatars in a similar way to this: https://framework.frictionlessdata.io/docs/development/authors/

Add software overview

Overview

I added "Standards Overview" from the prev version of the website - https://frictionlessdata.io/standards/#standards-overview so I think it will be nice to have similar for Software

Merge fellows.frictionlessdata.io/blog/ into frictionlessdata.io/blog/

@lwinfree what do you think of merging the Frictionless Data Fellows blog into the main site blog (with an appropriate tag so you can have a dedicated page to get all the posts).

Why? We are generally aiming to reduce the number of difference entry points so that people find stuff more easily (e.g. I did not even know about the fellows blogs ...). It would also increase the audience for these blog posts

Tasks

• Agree whether or not to do this
• If so, copy over the posts
• Implement redirect on fellows site to frictionlessdata.io

Redirects failing with 'Node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy'

https://github.com/frictionlessdata/website-v2/blob/master/site/.vuepress/enhanceApp.js
defines a number of redirects, but all or most of them fail to perform the redirect correctly e.g:

• https://frictionlessdata.io/field-guide/
• https://frictionlessdata.io/docs/validating-data/

The error DOMException: "Node cannot be inserted at the specified point in the hierarchy" is logged to the console.

Copyedit all site text

To-do:

• read all site text for understanding. Is anything unclear?
• remove text like "easy" and "just"
• fix any typos
• check for broken links

Lead: Lilly, with help from @sapetti9

Using blue color for links instead of red?

Hi,

@rufuspollock
@lwinfree
@sglavoie
@sapetti9

I've been working a lot on the website lately and still can get used to the red color of the links and hovers. TBH red is usually associated with danger/errors/etc (e.g. Bootstrap Button) so it might be the reasons why it doesn't feel natural at least for me.

If we compare the main website and the specs:

• https://frictionlessdata.io/adoption/#grant-funded-work
• https://specs.frictionlessdata.io/tabular-data-resource/#introduction

The latter in my eyes is more comfortable to read.

WDYT? Does someone have a similar perception? Shall we ask users to confirm that it's OK/not OK?