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Steward documentation
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Steward is a simple and experimental system for storing binary objects
in a web-based data-store. It is build on top of the pylons
framework. 

Interfaces
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Steward has interfaces for accesing and deleting objects:

- A simple Rest interface with a simple specification document.
- Atom publishing Protocol Interface
- Atom syndication protocol.
- Form based interface for publishing from a browser.
- A service document detailing all the access details that clients can
  access to dinamicly determine a store's capabilities.  
- HTTP Basic and WSSE authentication.


Interesting properties
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- All objects in the Store get assigned a unique identifier based on
  the object. This identifier is both hard to guess and predictable. 
- It's possible to assign easy to remember aliases to objects in the
  store.  
- Uploading of the same file multiple times will only store it only
  once.
- Contains simple reporting of what has changed in the store and what
  documents have been accessed by who. 


Related Links and services
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- *Main Homepage* : http://protocultura.cl/steward
- *Downloads* : http://protocultura.cl/steward/releases
- *Steward Code repository* : http://protocultura.cl/hg/steward
- *Marijn's patch sculpting* : http://protocultura.cl/hg/steward-dev
- *Continues Integration results* : http://protocultura.cl/buildbot/waterfall 
- *Development builds* : http://protocultura.cl/steward/builds
- *Builder twitter page* : http://twitter.com/stewardbuilder


Mailing lists
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- Steward discussion list : https://protocultura.cl/mailman/listinfo/steward-discuss
- Steward announce list : https://protocultura.cl/mailman/listinfo/steward-announce
- Steward automated builds : https://protocultura.cl/mailman/listinfo/steward-builds


More documentation
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.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
  
   install
   api
   datastructure


Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`