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+title: Arvados | Documentation
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- <h1>Arvados</h1>
- <p>This is the place where the documentation for it is.</p>
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+ <p style="font-size: 60px; font-family: Garland, serif;">AR‌<span style="margin-left:-0.07em;margin-right:-0.155em;">V</span>‌ADOS</p>
+ <p style="line-height: 1.2em; font-size: 28px; margin-top: 1em;">manuals, guides, and references</p>
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- <h3>Users</h3>
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- <p style="min-height:4em">Tutorials, examples, and reference
- materials for using the Arvados API and tools.</p>
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+ <p>This site contains documentation for the <a href="https://arvados.org/">Arvados platform</a>. The documentation is being developed as part of the open source project. It is a work in progress that has just gotten started. You can get involved by <a href="https://arvados.org/projects/arvados/wiki/Documentation">joining the documentation effort</a>.
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- <a class="btn btn-primary" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/">User Guide »</a>
- <a class="btn btn-danger pull-right" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/api/">API Reference »</a>
+ <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/user/">User Guide</a> — How to manage data and do analysis with Arvados.
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- <h3>Administrators</h3>
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- <p style="min-height:4em">Some features are only available to
- privileged users.</p>
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- <a class="btn btn-primary" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/admin/">Administration Guide »</a>
+ <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/sdk/">SDK Reference</a> — Details about the accessing Arvados from various programming languages.
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+ <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/api/">API Reference</a> — Details about the the Arvados REST API.
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+ <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/admin/">Admin Guide</a> — How to administer an Arvados system.
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- <p style="min-height:4em">How to set up a new Arvados site.</p>
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- <a class="btn btn-primary" href="{{ site.baseurl }}/install/">Installation Guide »</a>
+ <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/install/">Install Guide</a> — How to install Arvados on a cloud platform.
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