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Short description: Data distribution tool


Dat
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 release4 June 2013; 12 years ago (2013-06-04)
Repositorygithub.com/datproject/dat
Written inJavaScript
Operating systemLinux, macOS, Windows
Available inEnglish
TypeDistributed data store
LicenseBSD-3-Clause[4]
Websitedat-ecosystem.org

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]

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  1. ↑ "initial readme". Github. 26 June 2013. https://github.com/datproject/dat/commit/464679267049899eafa345125a0f2212f91be456?diff=unified. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dat Development Team". Dat Project. 2016. https://datproject.org/team. 
  3. ↑ "Commit Graph". Github. https://github.com/datproject/dat/graphs/contributors. 
  4. ↑ "Dat's BSD license at github.com". 18 November 2015. https://github.com/datproject/dat/blob/master/LICENSE. 
  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 




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