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...."