mdedit

mdedit is the Northwest Knowledge Network’s utility for creating, updating, and exporting metadata and managing data. It empowers users to share their data through the NKN data portal along with metadata properly formatted to conform to relevant metadata standards.

This guide is for mdedit developers. It covers the structure and design of the mdedit stack, from the MongoDB database to the Flask HTTP services to the Angular front end. The next page, quickstart shows how to install mdedit, how to start the front and back end servers, and how to run the tests.

Contents:

• quickstart
  • Install
  • Start Servers
  • Run Tests
• software
  • Sketch
  • Flask Backend
    • Roadmap for backend improvements
  • Angular Frontend
  • Frontend from front to back