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+# Pyerrors backlog
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+With this tool, we aim at making it easy to backlog correlation functions that can be read with `pyerrors`.
+This is done in a reproducible way using `datalad`.
+In principle, a dataset is created, that is automatically administered by the backlogger, in which data from differnt projects are held together.
+Everything is catalogued by a searchable SQL database, which holds the paths to the respective measurements.
+The original projects can be linked to the dataset and the data may be imported using wrapper functions around the read methonds of pyerrors.