Dtool is a suite of software for managing scientific data and making it accessible programatically. It consists of a command line interface dtool and a Python API: dtoolcore.
The dtool command line interface allows one to organise files into datasets and to move datasets between different storage solutions, for example from local disk to remote object storage.
The Python API gives complete access to the data and metadata in a dataset. It also allows datasets to be constructed programatically.
Dtool is extensible, meaning that it is possible to create plugins both for adding functionality to the command line interface and for creating interfaces to custom storage backends.
The dtool Python package is a meta package that installs the packages:
dtoolcore - core API
dtool-cli - CLI plugin scaffold
dtool-create - CLI commands for creating datasets
dtool-info - CLI commands for getting information about datasets
dtool-symlink - storage broker interface allowing symlinking to data
dtool-irods - storage broker interface to iRODS
Installation:
$ pip install -U pip setuptools wheel $ pip install dtool
Usage:
$ dtool create my-awesome-dataset Created proto dataset file:///Users/olssont/my-awesome-dataset Next steps: 1. Add descriptive metadata, e.g: dtool readme interactive file:///Users/olssont/my-awesome-dataset 2. Add raw data, eg: dtool add item my_file.txt file:///Users/olssont/my-awesome-dataset Or use your system commands, e.g: mv my_data_directory /Users/olssont/my-awesome-dataset/data/ 3. Convert the proto dataset into a dataset: dtool freeze file:///Users/olssont/my-awesome-dataset
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