Welcome to the DESC data management’s software documentation
The data registry is a means of keeping track of DESC related datasets, providing both a shared space at NERSC for the raw data, and a registry database to store provenance information for that data, for example:
where the data is located
when the data was produced
what precursor datasets it relies on
What and whom is it for?
It is for any datasets for which provenance and accessibility are important, e.g.
they are of general interest within the collaboration
they are used as input to further analysis steps
they are referenced in a paper
It is for anyone at DESC who needs to create, find or access such a dataset.
Getting started
This documentation is to help you get set up using the dataregistry Python
package; covering installation, how to register datasets, and how to query for
them.