GCat Background

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gCube Data Catalogue.... using CKAN.

CKAN is a powerful data management system that makes data accessible – by providing tools to streamline publishing, sharing, finding and using data. CKAN is an open-source DMS (data management system) for powering data hubs and data portals. CKAN makes it easy to publish, share and use data see: http://ckan.org/

gCube Data Catalogue provides a Metadata format XML-based in order to define its metadata.

gCube Data Catalogue Metadata

A Metadata in the gCube Data Catalogue is composed by two parts: CKAN's default metadata fields and gCube Metadata Format and Fields.

• CKAN's default metadata fields

Those are metadata fields common for all metadata types in the gCube Data Catalogue (and used by default from CKAN platform).

gCube Metadata Format and Fields

A gCube Data Catalogue Metadata is described as following: