We are pleased to announce the release of TARDIS v2 beta at
http://pxgrid.med.monash.edu.au:8000/
TARDIS v2 provides a central, searchable index for federated raw
crystallography data.
Improvements over TARDIS v1 (http://tardis.edu.au):
- Data is no longer stored in a Fedora Digital Repository. Instead,
data needs to be simply placed with a descriptor file on any web
server and then registered on the site
- Data is no longer compressed and archived, so no pre and post
processing of data needed
- The lack of archiving of data results in users being able to
download individual files within data sets instead of having to
download an entire set
- Entire datasets can easily be downloaded through an FTP interface,
either through the provided java applet, or using their preferred FTP
program
- Metadata is now stored at all levels, experiment, dataset and now
individual data file level. This ensures that the full descriptive
metadata is preserved
- Persistent handles generated automatically for citation in papers
(coming soon)
We expect to release updated deposition tools very soon.
Cheers
Ashley
Associate Professor Ashley M Buckle
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine &
Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium (VBC)
Monash University, Clayton, Vic 3800
Australia
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/biochem/staff/abuckle.html
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