User:Mbjones.89/KNB (repository)

The KNB is an international disciplinary repository of data focused primarily on the ecological, earth, and environmental science domains. The KNB provides storage and search services to preserve data and scientific software and enable data discovery, reuse, and citation. Historically, the KNB has been used to store large numbers of data sets representing the long tail of environmental research, but starting in 2010 has been deployed to also store and share large data sets created from environmental  sensor networks. The KNB is designed to support broad-scale, open scientific synthesis by improving data availability, reuse, and scientific reproducibility. The KNB repository was a founding member of the DataONE federation of data repositories, which increased the scope and impact of the holdings of all member repositories, thereby facilitating scientific data reuse.

Features

 * Data sharing and collaboration, access control
 * Heterogeneous data
 * DOIs
 * Support multiple metadata standards, including EML, FGDC, and ISO19139
 * API for automated access

Organizational history

 * Origination via NSF KDI program
 * KNB as a Network, Maintenance and network expansion by NCEAS
 * Adoption of Metacat software globally
 * Federation via SEEK EcoGrid protocols
 * Creation of DataONE: The KNB is a member of DataONE, the Data Observation Network for Earth.

Software
KNB is operated with the open source Metacat repository software, developed by NCEAS. While developed mainly to operate the KNB, Metacat is used worldwide for data repositories that wish to connect to the DataONE data federation.
 * Metacat UI can be customized to deploy the system seamlessly in an existing web site