Description

Girder is an open source data management platform (developed by Kitware as part of the Resonant data and analytics ecosystem). It is both a standalone application and a platform for building new web services.

Demonstration video

Primary features

• Data organization and dissemination
• User management & authentication
• Authorization management
• Allows heterogeneous use of MongoDB databases, Amazon S3-compliant key-value stores, and Hadoop Distributed Filesystems (HDFS) as Assetstores
• Plugins for metadata extraction, running asynchronous jobs, and more

Example use cases

• Girder Demo: A demo instance run by the Girder development team
• ytHub

Community

• Girder Gitter
• Girder Gitter Forum
• Girder GitHub Issues

See also

• http://girder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide.html
• http://girder.readthedocs.io/en/latest/plugins.html
• https://data.kitware.com/api/v1

Girder in Labs Workbench

This section describes specific configuration options in the Labs Workbench environment.

Required: Specify an Asset Store

On first login, you will be unable to upload files until you specify a location for Girder to save them. This can be done by creating an Assetstore.

To set up an Assetstore, log into Girder and choose Admin Console from the left-side navbar. When the Admin Console shows up, choose Assetstores.

Filesystem

Create a new File System assetstore with the following:

• Name = "assetstore"
• Root Path = "/assetstore"

This will allow you to quickly begin test driving your instance of Girder.

Amazon S3 / HDFS

There are also two other types of Assetstores: Amazon S3 and HDFS (Hadoop Distributed Filesystem).

If you have access to either of these, you can create an Assetstore using those credentials instead.