README.md

# DEEP File Tracking Database

## Purpose

This repository contains the essential implementation parts of the DEEP File Tracking Database hosted at the DAC (Data Analysis Center - MPI-Inf).

Components:

* SQL: database schema
* PL/SQL: server-side functionality (Oracle)
* Python: user-side clients for access via Oracle SOAP service or XML-RPC
* Java: tool for nightly sync between database and file system (by Georg Friedrich)

## Public access

The information stored in the database is (partly) accessible via the DAC status website:

[DAC Status Website (Oracle Apex)](http://deep.mpi-inf.mpg.de/status)

## Further references
The following publication contains a technical description of the DEEP metadata model for computational analyses. This covers a complementary aspect of the effort to ensure reproducibility of DEEP results:

["A general concept for consistent documentation of computational analyses", *Database* 2015](https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/database/bav050)

The official [DEEP data portal](http://deep.dkfz.de) is hosted by DKFZ (Heidelberg).

## Contact

Peter Ebert ( pebert -at- mpi.inf.mpg.de )