From the about page:
Dat is an grant funded, open source project housed in the US Open Data Institute. While dat is a general purpose tool, we have a focus on open science use cases.
The high level goal of the dat project is to build a streaming interface between every database and file storage backend in the world. By building tools to build and share data pipelines we aim to bring to data a style of collaboration similar to what git brings to source code.
The first alpha release is now out!
More on this project later this coming week.
I first saw this in Nat Torkington’s Four short links: 21 August 2014.