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Dat Ecosystem Relaunch

On the 30th & 31st of July, we had the chance to converge the Dat Community online on a unique two-day event. All actors - from enthusiasts and the curious to core developers and multiple projects’ creators - came together to refresh the whole Dat ecosystem.

Community

Dat Conference: The Summary

On the 30th & 31st of July, we had the chance to converge the Dat Community online on a unique two-day event. All actors - from enthusiasts and the curious to core developers and multiple projects’ creators - came together to refresh the whole Dat ecosystem.

Community

Dat Community Ecosystem Conference 2020

July 30th and 31st will be the dates for the first Dat conference. Whilst we will miss the chance to see each others faces, we think this will open up numerous opportunities for others to come by and have a full look at what has been cooking in the Dat Universe recently. Don’t miss the opportunity!

Community

Dat Protocol renamed Hypercore Protocol

The "Dat Protocol" has been renamed to the "Hypercore Protocol" and created a new organization for governing its tech. The "Dat community" will continue as the collective of teams and projects that have evolved from the original Dat CLI project.

Recapping Dat's Mozilla Open Source Support Award

In our application for the Mozilla Open Source Support award, we wrote: Over the last four years, Dat has grown from a data sharing tool to a wider community supporting the Dat Protocol.

Dat Project is now the Dat Foundation

Since 2013, Dat Project has led cutting-edge research & development for distributed ledger technology and data syncronization primitives. Everything open source from the first commit, we took Unix-style programming to heart and published

Newsletter

Dat Project Newsletter: July 2019

The Dat Project newsletter is a monthly newsletter highlighting interesting things happening in the Dat community. Let us know if you have something to share! You can support Dat with a recurring donation.

Getting Dat to work in new environments

A look at some of the work I've been doing for Dat Dat is an awesome mashup of a bunch of useful modules, for peer discovery and for data replication, that work together

Community

Three protocols and a future of the decentralized internet

Hi, I'm Darius Kazemi and I'm CS&S's Mozilla Fellow. Here are some of the things that I've been researching, building, and planning around the decentralized internet. In learning about these three protocols, I now see them fulfilling different, complementary roles.

Community

comm-comm what?

This article quickly introduces you into the history and purpose of comm-comm and maybe it helps you understand this a little better.

Community

Dat Field Notes

Over the last few years of working on Dat I've seen lots of great posts, articles, thoughtful answers to chat questions, and more. After gathering these slowly it is time to share it!

Community

Caracara: React + Dat + Automerge

How to create a simple collaborative editor on the distributed web

Decentralization

New funding compensates existing Dat volunteers

Let's make it easier to contribute to Dat.

How Dat Works: New documentation for the Dat protocol

How Dat Works is a new guide that explains how computers running Dat communicate with each other to share files. Today is the first release of this documentation and we’re looking for

Happy 2019! Dat Receives Two New Grants for $170k

Dat Project ended 2018 with a bang, receiving two grants before year's end! Dat received $100k from Handshake and $70k from Samsung NEXT Stack Zero. Both of these grants support Dat Project generally,

Community

Join us in London on Oct 24th to reconsider the web at Whyspace

Join Dat project and friends from design, art, science, activism, and more to talk about the future of the web.

Community

PREreview joins CS&S Sponsored Project Program!

We are thrilled to announce that Code for Science & Society is welcoming PREreview to our Sponsored Projects Program!

Science

Announcing The Dat Anacapa Container

Today we are releasing Anacapa Container, which enables reproducibility of research environment and data across campuses.

Dat Receives Mozilla Open Source Support Grant

We are excited to announce that Dat Project received a $34,000 grant to support Community Building, Protocol Documentation, and Tooling through the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program.

Community

CS&S Community Call: September 7th, 2018

Summer's almost over but let's keep the good vibes going. Join us for our next community call Friday September 7th at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 1pm Rio de Janero / 4pm UK / 5pm Berlin / 6pm Cape Town / 8pm Dubai / 9:30pm Mumbai

Community

May Community Call Recap!

Watch the recording of our second community call with a whopping 7 speakers from our sponsored projects Dat, Stencila, and ScienceFair - as well as speakers from the broader community.

Decentralization

Shared Infrastructure: A Cooperative Preservation Network for Data

Research and cultural heritage institutions are facing increasing costs to preserve digital objects like scientific data, digital art, and other artifacts. As many institutions move data to cloud services, preservation costs and complexity

Community

Code for Science & Society Community Call - May 31, 11am PST

Please mark your calendars for the next Code for Science & Society Quarterly Community Call. May 31, 2018: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK / 8pm Berlin / June 1, 6am NZ! Tune in on AirMozilla.

Community

Collaborative Communities at CZI Human Cell Atlas Meeting

At the end of April we joined scientists working on Chan Zuckerberg Science's (CZI) Human Cell Atlas (HCA) project to facilitate a session on collaboration for scientists. Improving communities ability to collaborate is

Announcement

Demo: A Collaborative Shopping List Built On Dat

We've been busy developing HyperDB, a distributed scalable database for peer-to-peer collaboration. Dat Shopping List is an application that makes grocery shopping fun again! HyperDB will be integrated in Hyperdrive to allow for multi-user collaboration with Dat archives.

Science

Data sharing between institutions

Interested in beta testing secure data sharing software? Try out the new Dat install and data sharing workflow with a friend and let us know how it went.

Science

Practical Decentralization of Scholarly Data & Resources

It’s time for scholars to ask whether today’s data preservation technologies align with open scholarship’s values of access, preservation, privacy, and transparency.

Announcement

Dat Project Updates: Focusing Our Goals & Community Structure

Over the last few years, Dat Project has grown from a tool for data transfer to a wider community building peer-to-peer applications. We are continually impressed and excited about the work being done

Announcement

Apply to work with us as a Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow!

Community

Code for Science & Society - Community Call wrap up!

Last week we brought together people from across industries including academia, publishing, and technology for our first community call.

Announcement

Quarterly Community Call March 1

Save the date for the first ever Code for Science & Society Community call! Join us March 1, 2018: 11am Pacific / 2pm Eastern / 7pm UK / 8pm Berlin / March 2 8am NZ!

Announcement

Code for Science & Society Expands Board

We held our first board meeting in San Francisco last week. Our board oversees operations and will support us as we develop sustainable strategic vision for the nonprofit and the Dat project.

Science

Is Open Science ready for software containers?

As part of Dat in the Lab we are working with different campuses in the University of California network. One of our goals is to publish researcher's data, code, and executable Linux container all as files in a version controlled Dat repository.

Decentralization

Dat Privacy Models: Creating Communities of Trust

Privacy on the web is an elusive thing. We often think our data is private only to later learn the company we trusted is using it for something we find unsavory...

Announcement

Updates on Organizational Changes: Looking Forward to the New Year

We announced organizational changes at Dat and Code for Science & Society (CSS) last week. Since that announcement, we have heard from many colleagues, community members, collaborators. We love your emails and tweets

Announcement

Organizational Changes for Dat and Code for Science & Society

Based on statements released last week, Max Ogden has resigned from all leadership positions at Dat and Code for Science & Society while we evaluate his long-term involvement. We decided on these actions through discussion with the CSS board, the Dat community, and external advisors.

Business

Do Not Ship It

Between us & our community, we think of lots of useful things that could be built on Dat. But we do not ship many of them. Why not? Because good decisions are hard!

Science

Virtualizing environments for eDNA analysis

Last month we introduced on this blog the research groups at UC Davis and UC Merced that we'll be working with for the Dat in the Lab project. Read on to hear where this project is taking us (hint in the header photo).

Recently

Recently @ Dat Project

Since we launched a new website, folks in the Dat community have produced some truly inspiring work. Check out a three-year-old bug fix and a new decentralized social network.

Science

Using Dat for automatic file backups

Here's a short tutorial about how to use the dat command line tool, plus a couple other fun utilities we have written, to automate the backup of files in real time from your

Science

Dat in the Lab at UC Merced: Reproducible bioinformatics pipelines in marine ecology

This week the Dat in the Lab team visited Mike Dawson’s lab at UC Merced. We learned about jellyfish in Palau’s marine lakes, sea star wasting disease, and environmental DNA.

Announcement

A Distributed Data Community: Introducing the New Dat Website

Now, more than ever, we must fight together for an open web. With the threat of a privatized web, we strive for a true web of commons — a combination of new technologies and

Science

Dat in the Lab at UC Davis: A tale of office dogs, watershed sciences, and user feedback.

To kick off Dat in the Lab, our collaboration with UC researchers, Max, Stephen, and Danielle traveled to the University of California at Davis to talk to Nick Santos and others at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS).

An Intro To Dat's Cryptography

Dat is a secure peer to peer live syncing file sharing protocol for the web. Here's an overview of the cryptography used in the project. Even more technical details can be found in

Decentralization

The Web of Commons

Decentralization is not just a technological problem, it is also a human one. With a commons approach to the decentralized web, the most ideal approach is guided from where we came. New protocols should be optimizing for science and mutual collaboration rather than optimizing for profit.

Business

Sustainable Funding for New Public Infrastructure: Dat History

Recently, the Dat project turned four years old. In that time we've moved from a one-person prototype to a nonprofit-run project. We'll take a look back at our funding history and some bumps along the way.

Science

Moore Foundation supports new collaboration with California Digital Library (and a new team member!)

We are excited to announce a new project called Dat in the Lab. The project is a collaboration between the us and the California Digital Library (CDL) with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

Recently

Recently @ Dat Project

New adventures in Dat land: building an Electron-like tool for Android, downloading Dats over HTTP, & adding one of Dat's best features to the command line.

Science

Locking Science Open with Decentralized Scientific Archives

Last year, we spoke at Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit and demonstrated Dat as a way to lock open scientific articles, data, and code together in one decentralized archive.

Releases

Dat 2.0 - White paper & New App Releases

A few weeks ago, after being charmed by the comma llama (an alpaca), the Dat team put our final touches on the Dat protocol white paper. Today, we are releasing Dat Desktop, dat

Releases

Upgrade for 100x speed, history, and other goodies

Beginning this week, you can update your Dat to the latest version (13) and get a new slew of features, including a 100x speed improvement. Upgrade to the latest version with the following

Releases

A Public Dat Peer

This week, we’re excited to release the next version of datproject.org. This public service will preview dat contents in the browser! You can view the dat's file list, number of sources,...

Conferences

Berlin Hack Week

Last week half the Dat team met up in Berlin. As a remote team (8 people, 4 countries) we mostly communicate through IRC and work asynchronously. This means that whenever we meet up,...

Science

Mention in the New York Times

We got mentioned in the New York Times about our work with the University of California Digital Library and the Data Refuge efforts. Read the article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/

Releases

Dat Desktop is here

Today we’re announcing the release of Dat Desktop, a peer to peer data sharing app built for humans. Dat is a new way to share data over the distributed web.

Releases

Preview the New Dat CLI

Over the last few months we have been optimizing and improving the Dat command line tool as well as underlying dependencies, such as Hyperdrive, to prepare for publishing datasets on our Dat registry.

Decentralization

Reader Privacy On The P2P Web

Vendor Lock-In The Peer-to-peer Web is a way of thinking about distributing web content over the internet that doesn’t rely on a central point of failure. Failure sometimes means the service disappears

Conferences

Reflections from International Data Week 2016

International Data Week in September 2016 brought together three events, SciDataCon, the International Data Forum, and the Research Data Alliance 8th plenary. Joe Hand from the Dat team attended the conference.

Conferences

An Introduction To Persistent Identifiers

This week in Reykjavik, Iceland I attended PIDapalooza, the first community conference dedicated to the topic of persisent identifiers (PIDs) for the scholarly web. As a relative newcomer to this community I wanted

Decentralization

Key Elements of Distributing Data

The data distribution toolkit has become a mixed bag of tools that require different skill sets and are applied for different purposes. Git, for example, is a tool that works effectively for governing

Announcement

Announcing Publicbits.org

We’re happy to announce that we’ve received a $420,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for a new project that we’re calling “PublicBits.” Our goal

Releases

Dat 1.0 is ready

We’ve been working hard on a new implementation of the dat command-line tool. You can try it out now (and remember to let us know if things break): npm install -g dat

Design

A Brief History of Dat

We have some exciting news to share about Dat: We’re working on a 1.0 release! It’s not out just yet, but you can try what we have so far by

Releases

Dat goes beta!

After a long year of alpha testing, which started in August of las year, we are excited to announce our launch of a new phase of dat. Beta starts now. Let us know...

Announcing the Dat Alpha

The first code went into dat one year ago, on August 17th 2013. Today, after a year of work, we are really excited to release the first major version of dat along with

Sloan funding Dat development

We’ve got two happy pieces of news! The first is that board member Max Ogden is transitioning to being an employee, as we start to house and support Dat, Max’s data

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