Motivation Modern science is characterized by heavy reliance on empirical data, which has led to a dramatic increase in the creation of data resources. The past few decades have seen major improvements in the ability to share these data resources for collaboration. But the accessibility is far from ideal - data is largely siloed in disconnected warehouses with incompatible interfaces. Interoperability is still just a dream in the minds of most scientists.
Even when the data becomes available, there is usually no version control to inform users about data updates. This leads to a lot of friction for researchers and peer reviewers, and does not allow citizen scientists and hobbyists to even take part.
Weekly reports of my Google Summer of Code 2021 work.
weeks 1-3 (17 May to 06 Jun) Things done Iterated on an early prototype of the Web UI of the Data Wallet. I will build on top of this work to include the BIDS-validation and other functionality as planned for future weeks. Plan for next week Work on debugging git-annex-remote-ipfs Bash script Issues blocking progress None week 4 (07 Jun to 13 Jun) Things done Identified protocol error in the git-annex-remote-ipfs script. Still working on a fix and testing Plan for next week Test fix for the git-annex script and test integration with datalad.