[newsletter] Mira, simple HTTP APIs for your CSV files

[davbre]

https://github.com/davbre/mira

This is a small application developed using Ruby-on-Rails. You upload a datapackage.json file to it along with the corresponding CSV files and it gives you a read-only HTTP API. It's pretty simple - it uses the metadata in the datapackage.json file to import each CSV file into its own database table. Once imported, various API endpoints become available for metadata and data. You can perform simple queries on the data, controlling the ordering, paging and variable selection. It also talks to the DataTables jQuery plug-in.

[danfowler]

Thanks for your submission! Will definitely get this in. 😄

[danfowler]

@davbre looking at this again, three things come to mind:

• Would you actually be interested in also listing this as a project (http://okfnlabs.org/projects/add) and maybe even writing a short blog post (http://okfnlabs.org/blog/add/) on our site?
• I noticed that you work in the pharmaceutical industry and that some of your examples for mira used clinical trial data. Are you familiar with the Open Knowledge project Open Trials?
• Are you interested in getting involved more deeply with Labs? Reboot / re-recruit for labs roles #367

[davbre]

@danfowler

Sure, I'll add the project, perhaps over the weekend. When I find some time
I might add a blog post. Regarding Open Trials, thanks for the link. I was
vaguely familiar with it - it looks like it's worth a revisit ;) As for
getting involved, yes I suppose I could in some small capacity or other. I
saw somewhere that you lot organise hangouts. I could participate in one of
those, and we can discuss further if you like.

On 19 November 2015 at 16:14, Daniel Fowler notifications@github.com
wrote:

@davbre https://github.com/davbre looking at this again, three things
come to mind:

• Would you actually be interested in also listing this as a project (
  http://okfnlabs.org/projects/add) and maybe even writing a short blog
  post (http://okfnlabs.org/blog/add/) on our site?
• I noticed that you work in the pharmaceutical industry and that some
  of your examples for mira used clinical trial data. Are you familiar with
  the Open Knowledge project Open Trials http://opentrials.net/?
• Are you interested in getting involved more deeply with Labs? Reboot / re-recruit for labs roles #367
  Reboot / re-recruit for labs roles #367

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[rufuspollock]

@davbre this is awesome :-)