Dat

Dat
	A command-line session showing repository creation, addition of a file, and decentralized synchronization
Original author(s)	Max Ogden
Developer(s)	Dat Team and others
Initial release	4 June 2013; 11 years ago
Repository	github.com/datproject/dat
Written in	JavaScript
Operating system	Linux, macOS, Windows
Available in	English
Type	Distributed data store
License	BSD-3-Clause
Website	dat-ecosystem.org

Short description: Data distribution tool

Dat (/dæt/^[5]) is a data distribution tool with a version control feature for tracking changes and publishing data sets. It is primarily used for data-driven science, but it can be used to keep track of changes in any data set. As a distributed revision control system it is aimed at speed, simplicity, security, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows.^[6]

Dat was created by Max Ogden in 2013 to standardize the way data analysts collaborate on the changes they make to data sets.^[7] It is developed through funding support from Code for Science,^[8] the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation^[9] and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.^[10]^[2]

Dat is free software distributed under the terms of the BSD-3-Clause license.

One of the main implementations is Beaker, a web browser that seamlessly handles dat:// URLs and allows building and seeding Dat websites.^[11] Homebase is a server-side permanent seeding tool for Dat.^[12]

References

↑ "initial readme". Github. 26 June 2013. https://github.com/datproject/dat/commit/464679267049899eafa345125a0f2212f91be456?diff=unified.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Dat Development Team". Dat Project. 2016. https://datproject.org/team.
↑ "Commit Graph". Github. https://github.com/datproject/dat/graphs/contributors.
↑ "Dat's BSD license at github.com". 18 November 2015. https://github.com/datproject/dat/blob/master/LICENSE.
↑ "Introducing Dat: If Git Were Designed For Big Data (at 00:00:03)". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX7qSwz3SCk.
↑ "dat" (in en). https://datproject.org/.
↑ "initial readme · datproject/dat@4646792" (in en). https://github.com/datproject/dat/commit/464679267049899eafa345125a0f2212f91be456?diff=unified.
↑ "Technology & Data For Good". Code for Science & Society. https://codeforscience.org/.
↑ "Dat". Knight Foundation. http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201346305/.
↑ "Dat Grant". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2014. https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6671.
↑ "Beaker | Peer-to-peer Web browser. No blockchain required." (in en). https://beakerbrowser.com/.
↑ GitHub - beakerbrowser/homebase: Self-deployable tool for seeding dat:// websites., Beaker Browser, 2019-06-12, https://github.com/beakerbrowser/homebase, retrieved 2019-06-13

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[dat-initial-commit-1] "initial readme". Github. 26 June 2013. https://github.com/datproject/dat/commit/464679267049899eafa345125a0f2212f91be456?diff=unified.

[dat-developers-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Dat Development Team". Dat Project. 2016. https://datproject.org/team.

[dat-commits-3] "Commit Graph". Github. https://github.com/datproject/dat/graphs/contributors.

[license_bsd-4] "Dat's BSD license at github.com". 18 November 2015. https://github.com/datproject/dat/blob/master/LICENSE.

[:0-5] "Introducing Dat: If Git Were Designed For Big Data (at 00:00:03)". YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX7qSwz3SCk.

[6] "dat" (in en). https://datproject.org/.

[7] "initial readme · datproject/dat@4646792" (in en). https://github.com/datproject/dat/commit/464679267049899eafa345125a0f2212f91be456?diff=unified.

[8] "Technology & Data For Good". Code for Science & Society. https://codeforscience.org/.

[9] "Dat". Knight Foundation. http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/201346305/.

[10] "Dat Grant". Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2014. https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6671.

[11] "Beaker | Peer-to-peer Web browser. No blockchain required." (in en). https://beakerbrowser.com/.

[12] GitHub - beakerbrowser/homebase: Self-deployable tool for seeding dat:// websites., Beaker Browser, 2019-06-12, https://github.com/beakerbrowser/homebase, retrieved 2019-06-13


A command-line session showing repository creation, addition of a file, and decentralized synchronization
Original author(s)	Max Ogden^[1]
Developer(s)	Dat Team^[2] and others^[3]
Initial release	4 June 2013; 11 years ago (2013-06-04)
Repository	github.com/datproject/dat
Written in	JavaScript
Operating system	Linux, macOS, Windows
Available in	English
Type	Distributed data store
License	BSD-3-Clause^[4]
Website	dat-ecosystem.org

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