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There are several tasks to be done to finalize freshness and make the information there available to users.  This will be an essential for v1 of data grid also. Here is the Data Freshness Roadmap.

Archiving/Versioning best practices

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(Mike/CJ)

Increasing our automation of visualizations and other tools is limited by the unpredictable nature of how many datasets are updated (new datasets, new resources, replacing resources).  We should both document the ideal best practice and promote that to our users and also .

Archiving/Versioning HDX tooling (Mike/CJ)

We should consider adding some kind of archiving function that would make it easier for users to keep their history without a history of previous versions of their resource removing the need for creating new resources for updates.

Is it time to resurrect the idea of a curated data service?  

With a general increasing increasing trend in the number of APIs and a general systematizing going on in the humanitarian community, could HDX serve as an aggregator/standardizer/hxlator for other humanitarian data sources?  Will HXL need to become a bit more restrictive in order to take advantage of the systematizing that is happening?