Blacknest BDS Documentation

Introduction

This page indexes usage information on the Blacknest BDS project.

Live Information

There is live information at: https://portal.beam.ltd.uk/support/blacknest/info
There is a Wiki for adding information at: https://portal.beam.ltd.uk/support/blacknest/files/bds/wiki

User and Admin Documents

Document

Description

BdsReleaseNotes.html

Software release notes

BdsBlacknestManual.pdf

Blacknest Data System, User Manual

BdsUserManual.pdf

Blacknest Data System, System User Manual

BdsSystemAdmin.pdf

BDS System administrators manual

BdsWebManual.pdf

BDS Web interface manual



BdsServer.pdf

The BdsServer daemon's manual

BdsAutodrm.pdf

The BDS Autodrm daemon's manual

BdsDataAccess.pdf

BDS command line data access client

BdsImportGui.pdf

BDS import GUI program. Digital tape Job BDRS waveform viewer.

BdsUserGui.pdf

Bds User Gui for user data access

BdsAdminGui.pdf

BDS administration GUI program

BdsImport.pdf

BDS Data Import programs

BdsImportMetadata.pdf

BDS Data Import Metadata program

BdsImportTapeDigitiser.pdf

BDS TapeDigitiser Data Import overview and program

BdsImportScream.pdf

BDS SCREAM data import daemon

BdsImportCd.pdf

BDS CD1.x data import daemon

BdsImportStreamCd.pdf

BDS real-time CD1.x network stream import

BdsImportStreamGcf.pdf

BDS real-time SCREAM GCF network stream import

BdsDataFormats.pdf

BDS Data Formats

BdsDataFile.pdf

The BDS data file format used for data storage

BdsResponses.pdf

BDS response handling

BdsUtilities.pdf

BDS utility programs

BdsControl.pdf

BDS Admin control program

BdsManage.pdf

BDS system management

BdsDataManage.pdf

BDS Data manage utility

BdsNoteAppend.pdf

BDS appends notes with and without document files to the system

BdsMetadata.pdf

BDS Metadata manipulation program

BdsTestSuite.pdf

BDS Test Suite



TapeView.pdf

User guide for tape digitisation quality evaluation tool

Development Documents

Document

Description

BdsDevelopment.pdf

BDS Development in 'C++' and Python

bdsApi

BDS API doxygen generated

bdsApi.pdf

BDS API in PDF format

libBeamApi

BEAM class library API

libBeamApi.pdf

BEAM class library API in PDF format

BdsDataFormats.pdf

Supported data formats

Older Documentation

BdsDevInfo.odp

BDS Old Development Presentation

BdsSchema.html

BDS Database Schema

BdsMetaData.html

BDS Meta Data information

BdsDataFileApi.html

BDS Data Storage API

BdsDataFile.html

BDS Data File Format



Prototype System Documentation

Document

Description

bdsPrototypeNotes.pdf

Blacknest Data System, Prototype Notes

bdsPrototypeOverview.pdf

Blacknest Data System, Prototype Overview

Specification Documents

Document

Description

bds-proposal-2.pdf

Proposal for Blacknest data system

bds-specification-3.pdf

BDS Specification - Preliminary

bdsApi

BDS API - Preliminary

prototype

Original Prototype documentation