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ATLAS Metadata Interface

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AMI is a generic framework for metadata catalogues.

Web applications

Main applications provided by AMI:

• Dataset Browser: search for real and simulated data.
• AMI-Tags: browse, view, compare and add ATLAS AMI-Tags.
• TagCollector (TC 2 and TC 3): manage ATLAS software releases.

Python client

pyAMI is the python client of AMI. It gives access to all the data contained in AMI from your python/shell scripts.

• Documentation
• PyPI (Python Package Index), CORE layer source code
• PyPI (Python Package Index), ATLAS layer source code

Using pyAMI with bash and CVMFS:

export ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE=/cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/ATLASLocalRootBase
source $ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE/user/atlasLocalSetup.sh
localSetupPyAMI

Using pyAMI with bash and AFS:

source /afs/cern.ch/atlas/software/tools/pyAMI/setup.sh