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Introduction
AMI which stands for ATLAS Metadata Interface is a lightweight Javascript frontend library, designed to help developers create user interfaces easily.
Originally developed for the ATLAS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS Metadata Interface (AMI) is a generic ecosystem for metadata aggregation, transformation and database storing. Benefiting from about 20 years of feedback, it provides a wide array of tools (command line tools, lightweight clients) and Web interfaces for searching data by metadata criteria.
AMI Ecosystem
AMI is an ecosystem of pieces of software dedicated to metadata in a big data context. It consists of:
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AMI Java Core: the server-side core library. It contains high-level primitives for aggregating, processing and storing metadata and for searching data by metadata criteria.
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AMI Web Core: based on AMI Java Core and Java servlet, it provides a proprietary HTTP service and an alternative REST API for accessing the whole AMIcontent.
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AMI Task Server: a handy scheduler for running metadata aggregation / processing tasks from heterogeneous primary data sources in a distributed way.
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AMI Web Framework: a Web framework for developing metadata-oriented applications. It is designed to be used with the AMI Web Core or in a standalone way.
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A set of lightweight clients for accessing the AMI HTTP service from anywhere (C, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python..)
Prerequisites for AMI Web Framework
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