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<td colspan="7"><div class="title">Metacat: data and metadata catalog</div></td>
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<h3>Documentation and Installation Instructions</h3>
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<p>Metacat is a flexible, open source metadata catalog and data repository
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that targets scientific data, particularly from from ecology and environmental
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science. Metacat accepts
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common syntax for representing the large number of metadata content
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standards that are relevant to ecology and other sciences. Thus, Metacat
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arbitrary XML documents without prior knowledge of the XML schema.
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Metacat is being used extensively <a href="/community.jsp">throughout the
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world</a> to manage environmental data. It is a key infrastructure
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component for the <a href="http://data.nceas.ucsb.edu">NCEAS data catalog</a>, the <a href="http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/">Knowledge Network
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for Biocomplexity (KNB)</a> data catalog, and for the <a href="http://dataone.org">DataONE</a> system, <a href="/community.jsp">among others</a>.</p>
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