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
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
