Description

Clowder is a web-based data management system that allows users to share, annotate, organize, and analyze large collections of datasets. Clowder is an active research data management system intended to support collaboration and integrates with data repositories for publication. When data is added to the system, extraction services ("extractors") run preprocessing steps such as generating previews, extracting metadata. 

Demonstration video

Link to a short (5 minute) demonstration of the key features of the tool or service.

Primary features

• REST API
• Extraction bus
• Oauth
• Publish data to external repositories

Example use cases

• SEAD (Sustainable Environment Actionable Data): end-to-end data services for managing, sharing and preserving data across a broad range of physical and social science disciplines.

• TERRA-REF Advanced Field Crop Analytics project uses Clowder to provide access to a massive collection of sensor data. 

Community

See also

• https://clowder.ncsa.illinois.edu/
• https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/bitbucket/projects/CATS/repos/clowder/browse

Clowder in Labs Workbench

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

Overriding the default configuration

By default, Clowder is started with the default configuration provided in the official Docker image.  However, it is possible to override the default configuration by mapping a volume to "/home/clowder/clowder/custom".  Using a console application or the File Manager, create a directory in your home directory called "clowder_conf" or similar.  After adding Clowder, but before starting it, select the config button. On the data tab, create a new volume mapping from "clowder_conf" (relative to your home directory) to "/home/clowder/clowder/custom".  When the application is started, the volume will be mapped and Clowder will read your custom configuration.