We Need Distributed Revision/Version Control for Data

Connotea Imports 2012-07-31

Summary:

"In the open data community, we need tools for doing distributed revision/version control for data like the one’s that already exist for code....Distributed revision control systems for code, like mercurial and git, have had a massive impact on software development, and especially so in the F/OSS community — the distributed methodology works particularly well with open material. The same would be true for data...."

Link:

http://blog.okfn.org/2010/07/12/we-need-distributed-revisionversion-control-for-data/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.tools

Authors:

petersuber

Date tagged:

07/31/2012, 17:31

Date published:

07/12/2010, 16:02