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.

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.

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!

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

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!

How to create a simple collaborative editor on the distributed web

Let's make it easier to contribute to Dat.

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

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,

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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...

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!

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).

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.

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.

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

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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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,...

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/

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.