[okfn-labs] dat - Versioned Data

Mon Aug 17 19:51:55 UTC 2015

If you're interested in helping out as a beta tester, the Dat team are
pretty awesome and would be happy to point you to examples other people
have used or to help you out in using it, I think. Their IRC room on
freenode is #dat. Just an idea.

R

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Ingmar Schlecht <ingmar.schlecht at unibas.ch>
wrote:

> 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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