shameless plug for the Popper Convention and CLI tool http://github.com/systemslab/popper . Our goal is to make writing papers as close as possible to writing software (DevOpsify academia) but in a domain-agnostic way.
Frictonless is interesting but 1) doesn't handle serialization (which is essential for performance); 2) requires users to hand annotate schemas (we think schemas should be auto-generated whenever possible).
Yes and yes. Do you use frictionless data packages? If so, what do you like and not like? We've looked at their specs and have thought about ways we could integrate. We'd love to hear your suggestions.
Yes feedback is the most important thing. One thing I notice between people who get good at something and people who don't is that the people who don't just keep doing the same thing over and over again and somehow expect different results. However the people who do get good at something, keep making small little tweaks day in and day out based on their performance.
That's correct, except that an Irmin client could choose not to reconcile if it would conflict, and just continue on with two active branches (presumably hoping for a future event that would help reconciliation). Bayou's a big inspiration for this system -- there's a filesystem under development that exposes some POSIX semantics using Irmin as a base. It should be possible to build rather interesting datastructures that go beyond conventional filesystems as well, though.
BTW, would be much appreciated if you could point to related work on the subject (papers, other projects, blogs, etc).
That'll certainly happen when we complete the research papers on the subject. It's a little out of scope for a blog post series that primarily focuses on trying to explain the stuff we're building.
