Michael Hanke
Professor at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, and head of the Psychoinformatics group in the Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich.
DataLad: Data Management Multitool
DataLad is a free and open source software for data version control and provenance tracking.
DataLad tracks files, agnostic of data formats or sizes, and provides transport logistics to distribute and retrieve these data - if needed, using encryption and credentials. Therefore, it is an ideal tool to manage and publish your own data, or to obtain others shared data. While DataLad does not store data, it integrates with various storage services, from local hardware to university infrastructure to commercial cloud provider. In addition, it provides utilities for linking datasets, associating them with software containers, and running computationally reproducible data analyses. By capturing structured provenance records, DataLad allows to easily rerun and reproducible results.
An overview of DataLad is also available as an easily digestible leaflet: Download Flyer
