CITATION.CFF

abstract: '<p><strong>damast</strong> is an open-source Python package designed for
  building, executing, and tracking reproducible data processing pipelines.&nbsp;</p>

  <p>Scientific reproducibility and rigorous data provenance remain persistent challenges
  in modern data-driven research.&nbsp;<br>The <em>damast</em> library contributes&nbsp;a
  lightweight, declarative framework for structuring complex data workflows as Directed
  Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) - currently focused on tabular data. damast associated datasets
  with an explicit metadata specification and facilitates annotation, inspection,
  filtering and rerunning of processing pipelines.</p>

  <p>Individual processing steps strictly define their inputs, outputs, and parameters,
  e.g., being able to enforce units, representation_types and ranges.<br>For its implementation
  builds <em>damast</em> on polars library for the data processing. Using polars LazyFrame
  concept, damast avoids redundant computations while guaranteeing that downstream
  artifacts remain strictly synchronized with raw data inputs.<br><em>damast</em>
  bridges the gap between ad-hoc script execution and heavy enterprise orchestrators,
  offering researchers a lightweight, locally application, code-first solution to
  ensure full reproducibility in scientific data processing pipelines.</p>

  <p>&nbsp;</p>'
authors:
- affiliation: Simula Research Laboratory
  family-names: Roehr
  given-names: Thomas M.
  orcid: 0000-0002-7715-7052
- affiliation: Simula Research Laboratory
  family-names: Dokken
  given-names: "J\xF8rgen Schartum"
  orcid: 0000-0001-6489-8858
- affiliation: Simula Research Laboratory
  family-names: Fouilloux
  given-names: Anne
  orcid: 0000-0002-1784-2920
cff-version: 1.2.0
date-released: '2026-09-04'
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.22312820
keywords:
- euroscivoc:47
- Computer and information sciences
- euroscivoc:941
- Data processing
- mesh:D015203
- Reproducibility of Results
license:
- bsd-3-clause
license-url: https://github.com/simula/damast/blob/main/LICENSE
message: If you use this software, please cite it using the metadata from this file.
title: 'damast: Creation of reproducible data processing pipelines'
type: software
version: 0.3.5