The HEAL Data Utilities python package provides data packaging tools for the HEAL Data Ecosystem to facilitate data discovery, sharing, and harmonization on the HEAL Platform.

Currently, the focus of this repository is generating standardized variable level metadata (VLMD) in the form of data dictionaries. See the documentation here However, in the future, this will be expanded for all HEAL-specific data packaging functions (e.g., study- and file-level metadata and data).

While the HEAL Data Utilities should be compatible with most versions of Python, you can download the latest version of Python here and install it on your local computer. We recommend installing Python version 3.10.

To install the latest official release of healdata-utils, from your computer's command prompt, run:

pip install healdata-utils

OR for the most up-to-date unreleased version run:

pip install git+https://github.com/heal/healdata-utils.git

!!! note

Installing the unreleased version requires having [`git` software
installed](https://git-scm.com/downloads).