Re:Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
by azag0 on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:41PM
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I am a scientist who sometimes publishes data sets with academic papers and this looks super useful both as a tool and as a potential publishing best practice. Currently doing away with HDF5 and figshare. One necessary future for academia would be to be able to assign a DOI to a given version of data. Is it feasible for quilt to have such a feature?
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Re:Show HN: Quilt – manage data like code
by kevinemoore on Friday July 14, 2017 @02:53PM
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We'd love to include DOIs for each version of datasets. I think it's feasible for us to do that, but we haven't scoped out how hard or expensive that will be. In the meantime, if you have a way of creating DOIs from URLs, creating a package version will give you a permanent URL for a version of a dataset. If you have a recommendation for how to implement DOI creation, please let us know. Thanks!
[disclaimer, work for digital science but not figshare]
Figshare currently has versioned dois, so you can refer to a specific release, and the API will let you download each one. I might put some small tooling around this as I release data there myself.
To add on the feature requests, for academia having trust that the data will survive the company going away is something important to me.