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. .. image:: _static/dataset.png