Welcome to the Home of NCSA Medici
Medici is designed to support any data format and multiple research domains and contains three major extension points: preprocessing, processing and previewing. When new data is added to the system, whether it is via the web application, the desktop client or through the RESTful services, preprocessing is off-loaded to extraction services in charge of extracting appropriate data and metadata. The extraction services attempt to extract information and run preprocessing steps based on the type of the data. For example, in the case of images, a preprocessing step takes care of creating the previews of the image, but also of extracting EXIF and GPS metadata from the image. This raw metadata is presented to the user in both the Medici web and desktop clients. If GPS information is available, the web client embeds a Google to show the location of the dataset, while the desktop client shows the latitude and longitude values as textual fields in the additional information view. By making the clients and preprocessing steps independent and using RDF as a common domain-neutral representation, the system can grow and adapt to different user communities and research domains.
Stay in-touch
Our mail lists include:
medici@ncsa.illinois.edu - General questions for development team.
medici-users@ncsa.illinois.edu - User Q&A (archived)
medici-announce@ncsa.illinois.edu - Release and information announcement list from the development team.
Your feedback is important
Let us know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions. We encourage you to submit wishlist requests, enhancement suggestions and bug reports. We use Jira to track all issues and invite you to create an account to provide feedback. With an account, Jira will notify you when any action is taken on your reported issue.
