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1. Jose (jgomezdans@fediscience.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 00:02:02 CET Jose

   • Pybonacci

   #academic #scientificdata We have loads of data around the lab. It's challenging knowing who has what where. Is there some (#freesoftware, #Python preferred) tool so that we can organise this? Should allow listing and querying metadata and hopefully, retrieving stuff via web. Chaos of formats including geospatial as well as CSV etc @pybonacci

   • Pybonacci (pybonacci@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 00:01:59 CET Pybonacci

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     • Robin Wilson

     @robintw @jgomezdans
     Datasette or ckan? Maybe ckan could be overkill for your needs. Datasette and the bunch of plugins could be a better fit.
     https://github.com/simonw/datasette
     https://github.com/ckan/ckan

   • Robin Wilson (robintw@mastodon.me.uk)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 00:02:02 CET Robin Wilson

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     • Pybonacci

     @jgomezdans @pybonacci I had this problem at Southampton years ago. I couldn't find anything that really did what we wanted - so I think in the end the geospatial technician just kept a spreadsheet with info on important/big/interesting datasets, with links to folders on a shared drive. Not really very satisfactory, but the simplest solution we could find.

   • Jose (jgomezdans@fediscience.org)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 19:31:24 CET Jose

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     • Pybonacci
     • Robin Wilson

     @robintw @pybonacci This is what we have at present, with large datasets repeated and stored in millions of places...

   • Pybonacci (pybonacci@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Mar-2023 19:35:58 CET Pybonacci

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     • Robin Wilson

     @jgomezdans @robintw
     You are not alone!!!!
     💪💪💪

     The most important skill for this is discipline 😜 . you can have 1000 tools but you need your team to use them correctly :blobpeek: