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Morpho is a data management application targeted at ecologists. It is tightly integrated with the Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity, making it easy for ecologists to manage their own data and collaborate with other researchers through the KNB. It includes an advanced data query tool, metadata creation tool, and data management facilities, and, because it is based on Java, works equally well on Windows, Macintosh, and UNIX operating systems.

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Download Metacat

Metacat is a flexible metadata database. It utilizes XML as a common syntax for representing the large number of metadata content standards that are relevant to ecology. Thus, Metacat is a generic XML database that allows storage, query, and retrieval of arbitrary XML documents without prior knowledge of the XML schema.

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Download EML

Ecological Metadata Language (EML) is a metadata standard developed by the ecology discipline and for the ecology discipline. It is based on prior work done by the Ecological Society of America and associated efforts. EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can by used in a modular and extensible manner to document ecological data.

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Monarch is a flexible tool for exploratory analysis of data. Its goal is to support analysis and synthesis of arbitrary data files via structured semantic metadata. Monarch utilizes powerful back-end analytical environments like SAS, R and MatLab to run analysis pipelines on the data itself.

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Download Itislib

Itislib is a Java library designed to provide an Application Programming Interface (API) to the ITIS*ca database of taxonomic nomenclature. This interface includes the ability to search the ITIS*ca database for a string match to a taxon name, which returns the ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN) for that taxon. One can then use the TSN to query ITIS*ca and find the scientific name, rank, author, synonym taxa, parent taxa, and children taxa (e.g., species within a genus), among other information. The "Itis" class is the main entry point for programmers to utilize the interface. All communication with the ITIS*ca database is accomplished using HTTP requests and XML formatted responses. See ITIS*ca for details on the ITIS database.

The Storage Resource Broker (SRB) is a client-server architecture developed at the San Diego Super Computer Center to link a distributed network of heterogeneous storage resources. It provides advanced services such as replication across a variety of storage devices, including UNIX and NT filesystems, tape systems, hierarchical storage systems, and relational databases. The KNB is using the SRB through the Metacat server for management of large data objects.

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