Metacat Metadata and Data Management Server

• Name: Metacat Metadata and Data Management Server
• Alternative Name: -
• Source Document Link: https://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/docs/
• Description: Metacat is a repository for data and metadata (documentation about data) that helps scientists find, understand and effectively use data sets they manage or that have been created by others. Thousands of data sets are currently documented in a standardized way and stored in Metacat systems, providing the scientific community with a broad range of science data that–because the data are well and consistently described–can be easily searched, compared, merged, or used in other ways.
• Type: repository software, metadata management tool
• Used by Disciplines: Subject Agnostic
• Keywords: metadata management, search, discovery, data description