Using Dat for automatic file backups Here's a short tutorial about how to use the dat command line tool, plus a couple other fun utilities we have written, to automate the backup of files in real time from your
Science Dat in the Lab at UC Merced: Reproducible bioinformatics pipelines in marine ecology This week the Dat in the Lab team visited Mike Dawson’s lab at UC Merced. We learned about jellyfish in Palau’s marine lakes, sea star wasting disease, and environmental DNA.
Announcement A Distributed Data Community: Introducing the New Dat Website Now, more than ever, we must fight together for an open web. With the threat of a privatized web, we strive for a true web of commons — a combination of new technologies and
Science Dat in the Lab at UC Davis: A tale of office dogs, watershed sciences, and user feedback. To kick off Dat in the Lab, our collaboration with UC researchers, Max, Stephen, and Danielle traveled to the University of California at Davis to talk to Nick Santos and others at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS).
An Intro To Dat's Cryptography Dat is a secure peer to peer live syncing file sharing protocol for the web. Here's an overview of the cryptography used in the project. Even more technical details can be found in
Decentralization The Web of Commons Decentralization is not just a technological problem, it is also a human one. With a commons approach to the decentralized web, the most ideal approach is guided from where we came. New protocols should be optimizing for science and mutual collaboration rather than optimizing for profit.
Business Sustainable Funding for New Public Infrastructure: Dat History Recently, the Dat project turned four years old. In that time we've moved from a one-person prototype to a nonprofit-run project. We'll take a look back at our funding history and some bumps along the way.
Science Moore Foundation supports new collaboration with California Digital Library (and a new team member!) We are excited to announce a new project called Dat in the Lab. The project is a collaboration between the us and the California Digital Library (CDL) with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Recently Recently @ Dat Project New adventures in Dat land: building an Electron-like tool for Android, downloading Dats over HTTP, & adding one of Dat's best features to the command line.
Science Locking Science Open with Decentralized Scientific Archives Last year, we spoke at Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit and demonstrated Dat as a way to lock open scientific articles, data, and code together in one decentralized archive. The Internet Archive has
Releases Dat 2.0 - White paper & New App Releases A few weeks ago, after being charmed by the comma llama (an alpaca), the Dat team put our final touches on the Dat protocol white paper. Today, we are releasing Dat Desktop, dat
Releases Upgrade for 100x speed, history, and other goodies Beginning this week, you can update your Dat to the latest version (13) and get a new slew of features, including a 100x speed improvement. Upgrade to the latest version with the following
Releases A Public Dat Peer This week, we’re excited to release the next version of datproject.org. This public service will preview dat contents in the browser! You can view the dat's file list, number of sources,
Conferences Berlin Hack Week Last week half the Dat team met up in Berlin. As a remote team (8 people, 4 countries) we mostly communicate through IRC and work asynchronously. This means that whenever we meet up,
Science Mention in the New York Times We got mentioned in the New York Times about our work with the University of California Digital Library and the Data Refuge efforts. Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/
Releases Dat Desktop is here Today we’re announcing the release of Dat Desktop, a peer to peer data sharing app built for humans. Dat is a new way to share data over the distributed web. It makes
Releases Preview the New Dat CLI Over the last few months we have been optimizing and improving the Dat command line tool as well as underlying dependencies, such as Hyperdrive, to prepare for publishing datasets on our Dat registry.
Decentralization Reader Privacy On The P2P Web Vendor Lock-In The Peer-to-peer Web is a way of thinking about distributing web content over the internet that doesn’t rely on a central point of failure. Failure sometimes means the service disappears
Conferences Reflections from International Data Week 2016 International Data Week in September 2016 brought together three events, SciDataCon, the International Data Forum, and the Research Data Alliance 8th plenary. Joe Hand from the Dat team attended the conference. International Data
Conferences An Introduction To Persistent Identifiers This week in Reykjavik, Iceland I attended PIDapalooza, the first community conference dedicated to the topic of persisent identifiers (PIDs) for the scholarly web. As a relative newcomer to this community I wanted
Decentralization Key Elements of Distributing Data The data distribution toolkit has become a mixed bag of tools that require different skill sets and are applied for different purposes. Git, for example, is a tool that works effectively for governing
Announcement Announcing Publicbits.org We’re happy to announce that we’ve received a $420,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a new project that we’re calling “PublicBits.” Our goal
Releases Dat 1.0 is ready We’ve been working hard on a new implementation of the dat command-line tool. You can try it out now (and remember to let us know if things break): npm install -g dat
Design A Brief History of Dat We have some exciting news to share about Dat: We’re working on a 1.0 release! It’s not out just yet, but you can try what we have so far by
Releases Dat goes beta! After a long year of alpha testing, which started in August of las year, we are excited to announce our launch of a new phase of dat. Beta starts now. Let us know