| PackageDescription | data files management and distribution platform
DataLad is a data management and distribution platform providing
access to a wide range of data resources already available online.
Using git-annex as its backend for data logistics it provides following
facilities built-in or available through additional extensions
.
- command line and Python interfaces for manipulation of collections of
datasets (install, uninstall, update, publish, save, etc.) and
separate files/directories (add, get)
- extract, aggregate, and search through various sources of metadata
(xmp, EXIF, etc; install datalad-neuroimaging for DICOM, BIDS, NIfTI
support)
- crawl web sites to automatically prepare and update git-annex
repositories with content from online websites, S3, etc (install
datalad-crawler)
.
This package installs the module for Python 3, and Recommends install
all dependencies necessary for searching and managing datasets, publishing,
and testing. If you need base functionality, install without Recommends. |