Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: vera
Version: 0.6.2
Summary: Implementation of the ERAV data integration model
Home-page: http://wq.io/vera
Author: S. Andrew Sheppard
Author-email: andrew@wq.io
License: MIT
Description: |vera|
        
        `wq.db: vera <http://wq.io/vera>`__ is the reference implementation of
        the Entity-Record-Attribute-Value (`ERAV <http://wq.io/docs/erav>`__)
        data model. ERAV is an extension to Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) that
        adds support for maintaining multiple versions of an entity with
        different provenance  [1]_.
        
        The implementation of ERAV provided by vera is optimized for storing and
        tracking changes to *time series data* as it is exchanged between
        disparate technical platforms (e.g. mobile devices, Excel spreadsheets,
        and third-party databases). In this context, ERAV can be interpreted to
        mean Event-Report-Attribute-Value, as it represents a series of *events*
        being described by the *reports* submitted about them by various
        contributors in e.g. an environmental monitoring or citizen science
        project.
        
        Getting Started
        ===============
        
        .. code:: bash
        
            pip install vera
        
        See `the documentation <http://wq.io/docs/>`__ for more information. See
        https://github.com/wq/vera to report any issues. Note that the vera
        codebase is contained within
        `wq.db.contrib <https://github.com/wq/wq.db/blob/master/contrib/vera>`__.
        The vera PyPI package simplifies the installation of additional
        third-party libraries needed for vera but not required by wq.db core.
        
        References
        ----------
        
        .. [1]
           Sheppard, S. A., Wiggins, A., and Terveen, L. `Capturing Quality:
           Retaining Provenance for Curated Volunteer Monitoring
           Data <http://wq.io/research/provenance>`__. To appear in Proceedings
           of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and
           Social Computing (CSCW 2014). ACM. February 2014.
        
        .. |vera| image:: https://raw.github.com/wq/wq/master/images/256/vera.png
           :target: http://wq.io/vera
        
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
Classifier: Environment :: Web Environment
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Natural Language :: English
Classifier: Programming Language :: JavaScript
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
Classifier: Framework :: Django
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering :: GIS
Classifier: Topic :: Database :: Database Engines/Servers
