Community:NCS

From NSDLWiki

The NSDL Collection System (NCS) open source tool supports metadata management and cataloging for digital libraries. The NCS creates and manages collections of XML metadata or XML content within a data repository such as the NSDL Data Repository (NDR) and is a flexible, XML-driven tool that provides a full-featured metadata editor, collection workflow processes, and a role-based permission system in support of distributed and collaborative collections management. The NCS can support any metadata framework defined by an XML schema and transparently writes metadata and collection-level information to a NDR. Hosted use at nsdl.org, or download for local use.

What's Happening

Try the NCS

Go to the NSDL Collection System (NCS)
Login as a Guest
Play in the test collections

Latest Releases

v2.9.0 - The current release, is available in sourceforge here.

Development Team

Jonathan Ostwald, Developer: NSDL Technical Network Services (TNS) at UCAR

Katy Ginger, Metadata Architect: NSDL Technical Network Services (TNS) at UCAR

Current Work in Progress

inputHelpers - a generic mechanism for third-party plugins that help calculate a value for a metadata field. The SMILE project used this mechanism to integrate their "geo-footprint" tool, which helps users to create bounding box using google maps, and then inserts the bounding box values into the appropriate metadata fields.

Who is Using the NCS

Get Involved

For suggestions, questions, and more information, please send your inquiry to NSDL via the contact form

Page List

Download Links

NCS Software Download (SourceForge)

Prerequisites

Documentation

Installation Instructions
NCS Users Guide (full documentation)
- MSWord version - 1.8 Mb
- PDF version - 460 Kb

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