[okfn-discuss] APIs vs bulk data, in the face of a government shutdown

[Rufus Pollock]

On 3 October 2013 16:25, Pieter Colpaert <pieter.colpaert at okfn.org> wrote:

>  Hi Eric,
>
> I fully agree!
>
> Therefore I believe distributed version control for data (~git for data?)
> is the future for (linked?) Open Data. A nice write up by ODI's James Smith
> about this can be found over here:
> http://www.theodi.org/blog/git-data-publishing. The most promising in my
> opinion is "dat" by Max Ogden: http://github.com/maxogden/dat
>

I should also mention this post from earlier in the year:

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/02/git-and-github-for-data/

And http://data.okfn.org/ which went live in April runs purely off data
package datasets stored in git repos on github (at
http://github.com/datasets)

Regards,

Rufus
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