Re: Use guix to distribute data & reproducible (data) science

[Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hinsen@fastmail.net>]

Hi George,

myglc2@gmail.com writes:

>> The three missing pieces are:
>>
>>  - Dealing with measurements, which might involve interacting with
>>    experimental equipment or databases. Moreover, since data from
>>    such sources can change, its hash in the store must be computed
>>    from the contents, not just from the reference to the contents.
>
> Why not "enclose" a measurement set and it's provenance in a git
> "package"?

For text-based data of reasonable size, that's an option. Many people
are already using git for data management. But then, data is so diverse
that no rule and no tool will satisfy everybody's requirements.

Konrad.