Perkeep

{{Short description|Set of open-source formats, protocols, and software}}

{{Infobox software

| name = Perkeep

| logo = Keepy-small.png

| logo size = 220px

| screenshot =

| caption =

| collapsible = yes

| developer = Brad Fitzpatrick

| latest release version = 0.11 ("Seattle")

| latest release date = {{release date|2020|11|11|df=yes}}

| latest preview version = 0.11 ("Seattle")

| latest preview date = {{release date|2020|11|11|df=yes}}

| operating system = Cross-platform

| size =

| programming language = Go

| genre = Data store

| license = Apache License 2.0

| website = {{URL|https://perkeep.org/}}

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{{Portal|Free and open-source software}}

Perkeep (previously Camlistore, Content-Addressable Multi-Layer Indexed Storage) is a set of open-source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing, and synchronizing data.{{cite web |title=It's time to finally rename Camlistore. |website=GitHub |url=https://github.com/camlistore/camlistore/issues/981 |accessdate=December 5, 2017}}

Storage

Perkeep's content-addressable storage is based on GPG-signed claims. These claims provide modeling, storing, searching, sharing, and synchronization of data. Perkeep can be thought of as Git for general personal information storage: a user's Perkeep is the main repository. Perkeep is graph-based rather than a working tree in data model terminology. Perkeep can store files like a traditional file system, but it specializes in storing objects such as pictures and videos.

Development

The Perkeep project is under active development led by Brad Fitzpatrick, a former Google employee (originally as a 20% Project), and co-maintainer Mathieu Lonjaret.{{cite web |date=26 April 2016 |title=LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick details his open-source digital life backup system |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2016/brad-fitzpatrick-camlistore-document-life/ |accessdate=April 26, 2016}}{{cite web |title=Gerrit code review rename to Perkeep.org |url=https://camlistore-review.googlesource.com/c/camlistore/+/11986/ |accessdate=December 8, 2017}}{{Dead url|date=September 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Brad |last2=Lonjaret |first2=Mathieu |date=April 24, 2016 |title=LinuxFest Northwest |url=https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/camlistore-your-personal-storage-system-life |accessdate=April 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160625143009/https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/2016/sessions/camlistore-your-personal-storage-system-life |archive-date=2016-06-25}} The project has two goals: expand the standard library of the Go programming language, and implementing Perkeep open source formats, protocols, and software for modeling, storing, searching, sharing of a long-term, personal datastore system.

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