Materials Data Centre

As with any new project, we love to use the latest and greatest tech to get the job done.

EPrints. The core of our document repository work. Written in PERL it's a great platform for development.

REST and SOAP/XML. Interoperable distributed systems architecture, SOA all the way.

C# and Windows Communciation Foundation (WCF). The MDC back-end is written using .NET. WCF means we are able to simultaneously publish REST and SOAP/XMl interfaces from the same code base.

SWORD. We didn't use this, but are planning to include it for the MDC middleware in the very near future.