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DataLad

Data distribution and management platform

👋 Welcome to DataLad!

DataLad is a free and open source distributed data management system that keeps track of your data, creates structure, ensures reproducibility, supports collaboration, and integrates with widely used data infrastructure.

Building on top of Git and git-annex, DataLad allows you to version control arbitrarily large files in datasets, without the need for custom data structures, central infrastructure, or third party services.

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See our pinned repositories below for quick access to our main code bases, or use the search bar to find a specific code repository.

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  1. datalad datalad Public

    Keep code, data, containers under control with git and git-annex

    Python 660 128

  2. datasets.datalad.org datasets.datalad.org Public

    Registry of public datasets provided by the DataLad project

    Shell 7 6

  3. datalad-container datalad-container Public

    DataLad extension for containerized environments

    Python 11 19

  4. datalad-next datalad-next Public

    DataLad extension for new functionality and improved user experience

    Python 13 13

Repositories

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  • datalad Public

    Keep code, data, containers under control with git and git-annex

    datalad/datalad's past year of commit activity
    Python 660 128 554 (3 issues need help) 35 Updated Sep 11, 2026
  • datalad-extensions Public

    Additional CI and a dashboard to check health status of DataLad et al.

    datalad/datalad-extensions's past year of commit activity
    Python 1 7 14 3 Updated Sep 10, 2026
  • datalad-usage-dashboard Public

    Dashboard of detected usages of DataLad

    datalad/datalad-usage-dashboard's past year of commit activity
    Python 4 MIT 3 4 4 Updated Sep 10, 2026
  • datalad-neuroimaging Public

    DataLad extension for neuroimaging research

    datalad/datalad-neuroimaging's past year of commit activity
    Python 19 14 25 2 Updated Sep 5, 2026
  • datalad-crawler Public

    DataLad extension for tracking web resources as datasets

    datalad/datalad-crawler's past year of commit activity
    Python 7 16 36 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Aug 20, 2026
  • datalad/datalad-registry's past year of commit activity
    Python 0 MIT 3 80 6 Updated Aug 13, 2026
  • datalad-container Public

    DataLad extension for containerized environments

    datalad/datalad-container's past year of commit activity
    Python 11 19 38 10 Updated Jul 20, 2026
  • release-action Public

    GitHub action to prepare releases for DataLad and its extensions

    datalad/release-action's past year of commit activity
    Python 0 0 5 0 Updated Jul 20, 2026
  • datalad-fuse Public

    DataLad extension to provide FUSE file system access

    datalad/datalad-fuse's past year of commit activity
    Python 4 4 21 5 Updated Jul 20, 2026
  • datalad-extension-template Public template

    Minimal implementation of a DataLad extension module

    datalad/datalad-extension-template's past year of commit activity
    Python 2 19 15 3 Updated Jul 20, 2026