odml- Metadata handling Library
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Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Jan Grewe & Jan Benda
www.g-node.org/odml
Sources can be downloaded from github (www.github.com): [email protected]:G-Node/odml-java-lib.git

odml is simple hierarchical format for storing and transfering metadata
about experimental data.
This library contains the Java implementation of it which can easily be used 
with Matlab.


License
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This work is published under the LGLP (GNU lesser general public license) version 3.0.

The odml-library is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


Installation/building
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The odml Java library comes as a simgle Java Archive (*.jar) that does not 
need to be installed.

If you checked out the source and want to build it you require the java compiler 
and Apache ant.


just run "shell>ant" to compile and create an odml.jar file.