Short youtube video clips to demonstrate DataLad functionalities

[jsheunis]

Challenge

When people want to implement something in specific programming language or with some tool, they might google

How do I do [some task] with [some tool]?

And what often come up as results are many short video clips on youtube that demonstrate exactly what they asked for.

At the moment, we don't have something like this for DataLad.

Possible solution

I think it could be useful to have short, topic-specific, tutorial-like video clips on the DataLad youtube channel to demonstrate some basic/intermediate/advanced functionalities of DataLad, aimed at people who need to implement DataLad in their pipelines? At the moment we have useful talks on the channel, but they're mostly long-ish, and the tutorials cover many topics. I'm thinking short clips that demonstrate how to address a specific challenge, as one will often see online for programming-type questions. This could be useful to use as quick pointers to people when they have the types of questions that probably arise most frequently. We could use sections from the Handbook as a guide.

Possible topics

I have not thought through this in detail, but some topics to start with:

• Installing DataLad on [insert OS here]
• datalad clone, get, drop
• datalad create, save, status
• datalad create-sibling
• setting up a special remote (many options)
• super- and subdatasets
• datalad run
• datalad containers-run
• something about logs
• yoda principles
• a collaborative workflow
• ...

How to go about it?

We could probably use the approach from https://github.com/datalad-handbook/course to create/record the content.

If anyone has further ideas or topics to add, please join the discussion.

[jsheunis]

• Miscellaneous file system operations: http://handbook.datalad.org/en/latest/basics/101-136-filesystem.html