SEAD's restful service api (see http://sead.ncsa.illinois.edu/sead-acr-api ) allows you to read/write/annotate/tag/delete datasets and collections (among other things). These services are used within SEAD's bulk upload/sync command line tool and can be called from Curl or your own code to allow your application to read/write directly to/from ACR spaces.
The sead1.jar file mentioned in the text is available at : https://sead.ncsa.illinois.edu/acr/#dataset?id=tag:medici@uiuc.edu,2009:data_4OZuHQmyCZEBfEavNm2gsA .
SEAD Uploader
The SEAD Uploader is a command line tool that can be used to upload or sync portions of your disk with an ACR project space. (The upload speed you achieve will depend on your disk and network speed, but the client itself can manage >10K file uploads and we've seen at least 250MB/minute transfer speeds over a mix of large and small files.). Note: The first time you use the SEADUploader on a machine, it will run through an authentication process with Google (see below).
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