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New open source data-confirmation utility: damage (data manifest generator)

New open source data-confirmation utility: damage (data manifest generator)

Paul Lesack, our multitalented Data/GIS Analyst in the UBC Library Research Commons, recently created a data manifest generator called damage that helps to verify the integrity of downloaded datasets. Damage is an open-source utility for both Mac and Windows with associated Python libraries for many different systems. This utility was created to assist the Data Liberation Initiative (DLI), which is a partnership between post-secondary institutions and Statistics Canada.  The purpose of the damage utility is to create standardized documents which definitively describe the contents of data sets. Users can confirm with confidence that what they have […]