Accessibility for non-techie newsies?

[chrismp]

Hi again, I'm having fun uploading datasets to Heroku via datasette. I'd like to set up datasette so that it's easy for other newsroom workers, who don't use Linux and aren't programmers, to upload datasets. Does datsette provide this out-of-the-box, or as a plugin?

[simonw]

I really want this too!

It's one of the goals of the Datasette Library #417 concept, which I'm hoping to turn into an actual feature in the coming months.

It's also going to be a major focus of my ten month JSK fellowship at Stanford, which starts in September. https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1123624552867565569

[simonw]

Have you played with Datasette on Glitch yet? https://simonwillison.net/2019/Apr/23/datasette-glitch/

[chrismp]

I was thinking of having some kind of GUI in which regular reporters can upload a CSV and choose how to name the tables, columns and whatnot. Maybe it's possible to make such a GUI using Jinja template language? I ask because I'm unsure how to pursue this but I'd like to try.