Another busy week, mostly because there is travel scheduled in the coming weeks, practically meaning there’s more to do in less time.
This week Y was at home because she fell ill Sunday night and she didn’t really recover until Friday. Luckily both E and I have enough flexibility in our schedules and work to easily ensure somebody is always around to take care of Y.

This week I

• Had the monthly meeting with my business partners
• Had the monthly stand-up in which we discuss our financial situation with the team
• Helped the team currently creating the latest iteration Dutch profile of the DCAT-AP standard for metadata in making sense of how to structure the fields for access levels and licenses.
• Participated in a half day session of government agencies forming a network around the EU data law aspects of the intergovernmental data strategy and federated data infrastructure.
• Had the weekly client meetings
• Looked ahead at our work for the National Police w.r.t. ethics and algorithms for the coming months and year.
• Installed the Obsidian task management plugin, to experiment if it now can fit with the way I deal with tasks in Obsidian.
• Had an introductory meeting with the data science team of the Ministry for Economic Affairs w.r.t. the energy transition.
• With Y, who had recovered enough just in time, for St Martin’s day walked through the neighbourhood with a self-made lantern singing songs and collecting candy from the neighbours. Usually she brings in enough to last the full year.
• Made the agenda and documentation for the next meeting of the interprovincial digital ethics committee.
• Imported my old Google calendar into Obsidian as daily log notes. I wrote a small parser that ingested the ical formatted text and had daily log templated notes as output. This added some 4700 events to my daily notes from the period 2007-2020.