Version: 3.0.0 Release
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Metacat is repository software for preserving data and metadata (documentation about data) that helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Hundreds of thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways because the data are well and consistently described.
See installation notes for detailed instructions for your OS.
See the docs directory for detailed documentation and installation instructions.
Details of the Metacat architecture can be found on the website for the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB):
http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/metacat/
Contributions to this work are welcome. Please see the above web site for details on how to contribute.
If you discover a bug please report it, either by email (above) or by using our bug tracking system (http://github.com/NCEAS/metacat/issues). There is a list of currently unimplemented issues that we are working on for the next release.
Cite this software as:
Jing Tao, Matthew Brooke, Dou Mok, Matthew B. Jones. 2024. Metacat: Data Preservation and Discovery System (3.0.0). Arctic Data Center. Software. doi:10.18739/A2VX0650Z
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under several grants along with the Department of Energy, the Mellon Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Grant numbers (reverse chronological):
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This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/). See the LICENSE file in lib/apache for details.
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This software includes the JDBC driver for PostgreSQL. See the postgresql-license.txt file for details.