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

[myglc2]

Hi Konrad,

On 02/16/2018 at 10:28 Konrad Hinsen writes:

> Whether for software or for data, dependencies are DAGs whose terminal
> nodes are measuremnts (for data) or human-supplied information (code,
> parameters, methodological choices). Guix handles the latter very well.
>
> 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"?

- George