A customizable and scalable data management system you can install in the cloud or on your own hardware. More information is available at https://clowder.ncsa.illinois.edu/.
There are three options to install and run Clowder:
- Releases are available here. You will have to manually install dependencies such as MongoDB, RabbitMQ and ElasticSearch. More information on this method is available on the wiki.
- The docker compose file allows you to run the full stack using Docker. You can learn more about Docker compose here. More information about this method is available on the wiki.
- Build it from scratch. Check out the code and run
sbt dist. Clowder core is a Play application.
For a full list of metadata extractors you can deploy to your instance, please take a look at the
NCSA repositories or
the Brown Dog wiki.
If you have extractors available somewhere else, please get in touch with the team so we can add them these lists.
For general questions you can write to the mailing list clowder@lists.illinois.edu or join the Slack workspace.
If you have found a bug, please check that it hasn't been filed already and if not open an issue on GitHub or Jira.
For contributing to Clowder see CONTRIBUTING.md. If you have new ideas and you want to start developing please check into Slack to get feedback from other developers. If you want to contribute to the documentation please follow the same workflow or let the community know of external resources you want to share by advertising on the mailing list or in Slack.
This software is licensed under the NCSA Open Source license, an open source license based on the MIT/X11 license and the 3-clause BSD license.