CDCS Features

Data Entry

• Use XML Schema to describe what are the data and how they are organized
• Dynamically generates a GUI for entering data
• Default rendering but, modular forms with integration of widgets
  ⇨    Provide a schema, get the GUI
  ⇨    Change the schema or use another schema, don’t need to implement a new GUI

Data Exploration

• Retrieve documents
• Query builder use XML Schema to dynamically build criteria
• Federated search (get data from the community and share data)
  ⇨    Retrieve data, download, share, export in other formats

Schema Composer

• Customize existing templates
• Build your own template using types shared by the community
• Community working on a shared vocabulary
  ⇨    Compose a template and start curating data 

REST API

• Curate, explore programmatically
• Do admin tasks programmatically
• Automate tasks, insert the Curator in a workflow

Admin

• Add users to the system
• Add templates/types
• Customize templates by adding widgets
• Connect to remote instances of the Curator
  ⇨    Manage resources and users