Qri: A global dataset version control system built on the distributed web

qri is a global dataset version control system (GDVCS) built on the distributed web

If you’re unfamiliar with version control, particularly the distributed kind, well you’re probably viewing this document on github — which is a version control system intended for code. Qri is applying that family of concepts to four common data problems:

Because qri is global and content-addressed, adding data to qri also checks the entire network to see if someone has added it before. Qri comes with tools to turn all datasets on the network into a JSON API with a single command.

Source: github.com