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metador-core

The core library of the Metador framework. It provides:

  • an interface for managing structured and validated metadata (MetadorContainer)
  • an API to manage immutable (but still "patchable") HDF5 files (IH5Record)
  • an extensible entry-points based plugin system for defining plugin groups and plugins
  • core plugin group types and interfaces (schemas, packers, widgets, ...)
  • general semantically aligned schemas that can be used and extended
  • visualization widgets for common data types based on Bokeh and Panel
  • generic dashboard presenting (meta)data for which suitable widgets are installed

Usage

To get started, please check out the quickstart guide.

How to Cite

If you want to cite this project in your scientific work, please use the citation file in the repository.

Acknowledgements

We kindly thank all authors and contributors.

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This project was developed at the Institute for Materials Data Science and Informatics (IAS-9) of the Jülich Research Center and funded by the Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration (HMC), an incubator-platform of the Helmholtz Association within the framework of the Information and Data Science strategic initiative.