[Open-bio-l] Common Sample Data Collection, was: SCF files (Staden)

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Nov 30, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Peter Cock wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public41 at thebird.nl> wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:42:22AM +0000, Peter Cock wrote:
>>> How about an OBF hosted FTP site then if we want big data?
>> 
>> Yes :)
>> 
>>> I guess we'd mostly be adding files, and changes/deletions
>>> should be rare, so a full version tracking repository isn't
>>> essential if we are disciplined about updating README files
>>> or more formal meta data.
>> 
>> We can still have the readme's and MD5s mirrored in a small repo. That
>> would track changes/moving/renaming.
>> 
>> Pj.
> 
> True, or even a hybrid where small files also live in a git
> repo, but for larger files we just store the URL and MD5?
> 
> Peter

There was an initial push for this years ago IIRC, with the biodata repository, but it never took off.  Not sure if the dev.open-bio.org CVS repo is even browsable anymore (I believe this was all synced to portal for browsing), but the old biodata CVS repo is still in /home/repositories/biodata (very little there, might as well start from scratch).

chris