Overview
Let’s get the ugly truth out of the way, why don’t we?
What is it good for?
- You want to have your web interface close to the data
- You want to customize how you preview, store, curate the data
- You have a lot of data but cannot afford cloud storage solutions
What is it bad for?
- If you just want to store small files that don’t require a lot of curation a cloud storage solution might be a better fit
The ugly?
- It’s research software, use at your own risk
- A 1.0 version has not been released yet
Data Model
Clowder is designed to support any data format and multiple research domains and contains three major extension points:
preprocessing, processing and previewing.