Welcome to Metax Service Documentation

Metax is a metadata storage for Finnish research data. It's part of Fairdata Services and acts as a metadata repository for all Research Data stored in Fairdata Services.

Metax itself does not have a graphical UI, but provides an API to both Service Users (Organizations) and End Users. This documentation is meant for API users.

About Metax API

User Guide
Contributing
Swagger
Source Code on GitHub

Latest version of Metax API is V3. Documentation provided here is for Metax V3 API. Older API versions, V1 and V2, are still supported although it's highly recommended to use V3.

Fairdata Services and Tools

In addition to Metax API, you can use other Fairdata Services and Tools to manage your data and metadata in more graphical way.

More info about Fairdata:

Fairdata Service Family in general
Fairdata IDA for storing your Research Data
Fairdata Qvain for describing and publishing Research Data