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Creating, Adding, and Using a New Tool

  1. User downloads BrownDog development environment in docker container (in dockerhub, link on BD webpage)
    • Contains running Clowder instance, Polyglot instance, basic development tools, mabye even an IDE configured and ready to go
    • Contains a bare-bones extractor ready to be modified for a new tool (with comments suggesting where to edit)
    • Contains a bare-bones converter ready to be modified for a new tool (with comments suggesting where to edit)
  2. User installs tool, creates interface script(s)
  3. User creates dockerfile
    • For extractors this should contain only the tool, its dependencies, and the extractor
    • For converters this should contain the basic Polyglot setup, ideally only the Software Server, the tool, its dependencies, and the converter interface script