Gdata (google data) is a set of application programming interfaces (apis) for the common language infrastructure (cli) which provide a simple protocol for reading and writing data on the web.

each of the following google services provides a google data api:
* base
* blogger
* calendar
* code search
* contacts
* document list
* google apps provisioning
* notebook
* picasa web albums
* spreadsheets
* youtube
the gdata cli client library provides a library and source code that make it easy to access data through google data apis.

this package contains the gdata assemblies