[okfn-labs] dat - Versioned Data

Mon Aug 17 10:13:10 UTC 2015

Hi Rufus,

thanks a bunch for your mail. Very good to have the additional 
background and see the project's linkages to OKFN / your work.

The trade-off between plain CSV in a Git repo vs. dat was also the one I 
had in mind. Your comments do make me more eager to try the dat way - 
even though Git/CSV still sounds like a solid fallback if things don't 
work out well.

Best
Ingmar

On 17.08.2015 11:05, Rufus Pollock wrote:
> On 17 August 2015 at 08:59, Ingmar Schlecht <ingmar.schlecht at unibas.ch
> <mailto:ingmar.schlecht at unibas.ch>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>
> Welcome!
>
>     not sure if this is the right forum, but given that discuss.okfn.org
>     <http://discuss.okfn.org> currently lacks the "new topic" button
>     [1], I dare to post this here.
>
>
> Definitely the right place - though the forum is better. I'll respond to
> this in the thread here:
> https://discuss.okfn.org/t/new-topic-button-missing/945 about the issue
> you raise.
>
>     Does any of you know / has worked with "dat", the Git for data,
>     already? What are your experiences? Do you think it has potential to
>     become THE
>
>
> I definitely know of it - and I think many others do here. I haven't
> used it a lot since early alpha when it was quite rough and ready. I
> guess my views here were a bit similar to Pieter's and were summed up in:
>
> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/02/git-and-github-for-data/
>
>     versioning for data software out there? It looks like a handy tool
>     to me but I can't really judge the maturity of the project and
>     software, so I would be interested in your comments.
>
>     http://dat-data.com/
>
>
> I'm definitely excited about it - I think the question is using it vs
> e.g. git + simple csv (for me at least atm)
>
>     Interestingly, when searching for "Data Versioning" in google the
>     first result still is a text on Data Versioning theory by Rufus:
>     http://dataprotocols.org/revisioning-data/ Would be nice to see
>     something like that updated to todays possiblilities including the
>     potential of things like "dat".
>
>
> @Ingmar: good point. Max Ogden was a contributor to Data Protocols and
> it would be good to update that page (pull requests welcome!). There are
> also associated pages like http://dataprotocols.org/sleep/ - if you are
> not aware SLEEP was actually part of the early planning and inspiration
> for dat I think and Max and I had many conversations over the years
> about this.
>
> Rufus
>
>     Cheers
>     Ingmar
>
>
>     [1] new topic button missing, see the last three replies to:
>     https://discuss.okfn.org/t/discuss-okfn-org-moved-to-an-open-knowledge-sysadmin-server/236/11
>
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