Science Data sharing between institutions Interested in beta testing secure data sharing software? Try out the new Dat install and data sharing workflow with a friend and let us know how it went.
Practical Decentralization of Scholarly Data & Resources It’s time for scholars to ask whether today’s data preservation technologies align with open scholarship’s values of access, preservation, privacy, and transparency.
Announcement Dat Project Updates: Focusing Our Goals & Community Structure Over the last few years, Dat Project has grown from a tool for data transfer to a wider community building peer-to-peer applications. We are continually impressed and excited about the work being done
Announcement Apply to work with us as a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow! We are thrilled for Code for Science & Society to be a host organization for the 2018 Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellowship. Our Open Web Fellow will work on using Dat and peer-to-peer technologies
Community Code for Science & Society - Community Call wrap up! Last week we brought together people from across industries including academia, publishing, and technology for our first community call.
Announcement Quarterly Community Call March 1 Save the date for the first ever Code for Science & Society Community call! Join us March 1, 2018: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK / 8pm Berlin / March 2 8am NZ!
Announcement Code for Science & Society Expands Board We held our first board meeting in San Francisco last week. Our board oversees operations and will support us as we develop sustainable strategic vision for the nonprofit and the Dat project.
Science Is Open Science ready for software containers? As part of Dat in the Lab we are working with different campuses in the University of California network. One of our goals is to publish researcher's data, code, and executable Linux container all as files in a version controlled Dat repository.
Decentralization Dat Privacy Models: Creating Communities of Trust Privacy on the web is an elusive thing. We often think our data is private only to later learn the company we trusted is using it for something we find unsavory (or it
Announcement Updates on Organizational Changes: Looking Forward to the New Year We announced organizational changes at Dat and Code for Science & Society (CSS) last week. Since that announcement, we have heard from many colleagues, community members, collaborators. We love your emails and tweets
Announcement Organizational Changes for Dat and Code for Science & Society Based on statements released last week, Max Ogden has resigned from all leadership positions at Dat and Code for Science & Society while we evaluate his long-term involvement. We decided on these actions through discussion with the CSS board, the Dat community, and external advisors.
Business Do Not Ship It Between us & our community, we think of lots of useful things that could be built on Dat. But we do not ship many of them. Why not? Because good decisions are hard!
Science Virtualizing environments for eDNA analysis Last month we introduced on this blog the research groups at UC Davis and UC Merced that we'll be working with for the Dat in the Lab project. Read on to hear where this project is taking us (hint in the header photo).
Recently Recently @ Dat Project Since we launched a new website, folks in the Dat community have produced some truly inspiring work. Check out a three-year-old bug fix and a new decentralized social network.
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
