dtoolcore 3.18.3

Core API for managing (scientific) data

• Documentation: http://dtoolcore.readthedocs.io

• GitHub: https://github.com/jic-dtool/dtoolcore

• PyPI: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/dtoolcore

• Free software: MIT License

Features

• Core API for adding different types of metadata to files on disk

• Automatic generation of structural metadata

• Programmatic discovery and access of items in a dataset

• Structural metadata includes hash, size and modification time for subsequent integrity checks

• Ability to annotate individual files with arbitrary metadata

• Metadata stored on disk as plain text files, i.e. disk datasets generated using this API can be accessed without special tools

• Ability to create plugins for custom storage solutions

• Plugins for iRODS and Microsoft Azure storage backends available

• Cross-platform: Linux, Mac and Windows are all supported

• Works with Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6

• No external dependencies

Overview

The dtoolcore project provides a Python API for managing (scientific) data. It allows researchers to:

• Package data and metadata into a dataset

• Organise and backup datasets easily

• Find datasets of interest

• Verify the contents of datasets

• Discover and work with data programatically