The Dendro platform is a completely open-source platform designed to help researchers describe their datasets, fully build on Linked Open Data. It is designed to capture data and metadata during the research workflow. Whenever researchers want to publish a dataset, they can export to repositories such as CKAN, DSpace, Invenio, or EUDAT's B2Share. Any repository can be added by writing small plug-ins.
It is under development at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto's Infolab since 2013. If you are interested in the academic foundations and innovations behind Dendro, please check out our publications at the Dendro official website.
You are free to use Dendro to build any service for your research group or institution.
Pull requests are welcome!
##Dependencies
Dendro relies on
- OpenLink Virtuoso for the database layer
- ElasticSearch for free text searching
- MongoDB and its GridFS system for scalable file storage
- NodeJS and ExpressJS for the server side
- Twitter Boostrap
##Acknowledgements
This work was supported by project NORTE-07-0124-FEDER-000059, financed by the North Portugal Regional Operational Programme (ON.2-O Novo Norte), under the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF), through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and by national funds, through the Portuguese funding agency, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). João Rocha da Silva was also supported by research grant SFRH/BD/77092/2011, provided by the Portuguese funding agency, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT).
This work is financed by the ERDF – European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation - COMPETE 2020 Programme and by National Funds through the Portuguese funding agency, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-016736.
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Copyright (c) 2016, João Rocha da Silva, FEUP InfoLab (http://dendro.fe.up.pt)
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