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.