SmartContainers is python wrapper for docker that facilitates the recording and tracking of provenance information using the W3C recommendation prov-o. SmartConainers is being developed as part of the Data and Software Preservation for Open Science (DASPOS) project.
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SmartContainers provides a command line tool, sc, that provides a surrogate for the docker command line tool.
sc --docker <docker command line>Will create a docker label with provenance metadata using the W3C Prov-o vocabulary with respect to the computational environment created or provided by a particular docker container.
A python setup file is provided for installation of the command line utility. It is recommended to install the tool in a Python virtual environment.
pip install .Will install the tool and it's dependencies in a virtual environment.
To search Orcid.org for an Orcid ID and write the RDF graph information to the configuration file from the command line or shell:
python cli.py config orcid
This option gives you the ability to search for an Orcid user by name, email, and keywords, such as department, institution, or state.
If you already know the Orcid ID or Orcid email of the user that you want to write a configuration file for, then you can use the following arguments:
python cli.py config orcid -i 0000-0000-0000-0000
python cli.py config orcid -e your_email@gmail.com
The configuration file will be written to a .sc directory created in your home directory. In the future, the configuration file location will be a user option.