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:alt: Clowder: web data management system, bringing the cats to the cloud
Welcome to Clowder's documentation. Clowder is a web-based data management system that allows users to share, annotate,
organize and analyze large collections of datasets.
Clowder is open source software that can be customized and deployed on your own cloud.
The following pages give an overview of the project, how to get an instance up, and how to interact with existing
instances through the API.
The guide is still work in progress. If interested, please check often for updates.
Useful links:
* For a high level overview please visit the `home page `_ of the project.
* If you have questions for the Clowder you can chat with the developers on `HipChat `_.
* Issue tracking, internal documents, continuous build and other information is available on `NCSA Opensource `_.
User's Guide
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overview
installation
license
thankyou
Developer's Guide
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architecture
setup_dev
source
setup
extractors
previewers
api