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Metaseed Hub

Metaseed Hub is a collaborative platform for building standardized research metadata. Teams create datasets that follow an established metadata profile (MIAPPE, ISA, DiSSCo, Darwin Core, or a custom specification), edit them through schema-driven forms, and share them with collaborators. It is built on metaseed.

What you can do

  • Datasets — create metadata datasets from a profile, edit entities through generated forms, validate against the schema, track versions, and import or export data.
  • Collaboration — share a dataset with collaborators as Owner, Curator, or Viewer, and discuss it through threaded comments.
  • Spec Builder — design custom metadata specifications: entities, fields, relationships, and validation rules; publish them and fork published specs.
  • Explorer — browse a profile's structure and compare two profiles side by side.
  • Administration — admin users see aggregated usage statistics.

Using this manual

Section Start here if you want to
Getting Started Log in and create your first dataset
Datasets Create, edit, validate, version, and export datasets
Collaboration Share datasets and use comments
Spec Builder Design and publish custom specifications
Explorer Browse and compare profiles
Reference Look up supported profiles and ontology search
Administration Use the admin dashboard

For deployment, architecture, and HTTP API details, see the Developer section.