On 03.09.20 23:22, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > On Thu, 03 Sep 2020, Steffen Möller wrote: > >> The name "datalad" (https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/lad) I definitely like. > ...
I also liked the alternative association as an abbreviation of "ladder". Maybe we should stress that a bit more. Having followed the video on https://saimei.ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2020/DebConf20/52-datalad-decentralized-management-of-digital-objects-for-open-science.webm, I tend to agree that it fits nicely with many demands, but: * sharing data between colleagues - can you have two different versions at the same time? * I see this mostly orthogonal to the question how we organize our data relative to whatever "dataRoot" we define * we still have a community-effort to collect the data from somewhere (which likely is not a git repository) and post-process it (like some indexing for a variety of tools) and to finally prepare the data somewhere * with some agreement between us on how to formulate the metadata in a machine-readable manner so we know what tool needs to check out what files for which workflows I should now read a bit in your handbook. And think a bit more about it over the weekend. Best, Steffen
