Core API for managing (scientific) data
Project description
Documentation: http://dtoolcore.readthedocs.io
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. datasets generated using this API can be accessed without special tools
Cross-platform: Linux, Mac and Windows are all supported
Works with Python 2.7, 3.5 and 3.6
Overview
The dtoolcore project provides a Python API for managing (scientific) data. It aims to help in three areas:
Adding structure and meta data to your project and files
Providing programmatic discovery of your data
Verifying the integrity of your data
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