Purpose

Data Package Manager (dpm, and formerly datapkg) is an user tool for distributing, discovering and installing data (and content) ‘packages’.

dpm is a simple way to’‘package’ data building on existing packaging tools developed for code (e.g. Debian apt, PyPI, CRAN, Gems, CPAN). dpm is designed to integrate closely with the CKAN instances.

For a longer overview see this blog post ‘Introducting datapkg’ and the dpm documentation.

Created: 2008-01

• Start: 2008-01
• v0.1: 2008-07-05
• v0.4: 2009-12-28
• v0.7: 2010-10-11

Project Members

• Rufus Pollock
• James Casbon
• Mike Chelen
• John Bywater (Emeritus)

Status: Active

More Info

• Data Pacakage spec: http://www.dataprotocols.org/en/latest/packages.html
• Docs: http://dpm.readthedocs.org/
• Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dpm/
• Source (and changelog): http://github.com/okfn/dpm/

Participate

• http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/ckan-dev
• http://okfn.org/contact/