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    <h2>MetacatUI 3.0.0 is coming soon</h2>
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        The next major version of MetacatUI is under way and will mainly focus on performance (#2027) 
        and better dependency management. Track the status of the features on <a href="https://github.com/NCEAS/metacatui/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22MetacatUI+3.0.0%22">GitHub Issues</a>. Share any feedback or questions with the development team on <a href="https://github.com/NCEAS/metacatui/discussions/2028">GitHub Discussions</a>.
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## About
MetacatUI is a client-side web interface for Metacat science data repositories and other repository software that implement the DataONE REST API.  Currently, it is used as the basis for the [KNB Data Repository](http://knb.ecoinformatics.org), the [NSF Arctic Data Center](https://arcticdata.io/catalog/), the [DataONE federation](https://search.dataone.org), and other organizations.

MetacatUI is an open source, community project.  We [welcome contributions](https://github.com/NCEAS/metacatui/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) in many forms, including code, graphics, documentation, bug reports, testing, etc.  Use the [Github discussion list](https://github.com/NCEAS/metacatui/issues) to discuss these contributions with us.

## Citation

Cite this software as:

> Matthew B. Jones, Chris Jones, Lauren Walker, Robyn Thiessen-Bock, Ben Leinfelder, Peter Slaughter, Bryce Mecum, Rushiraj Nenuji, Hesham Elbashandy, Val Hendrix. 2022. MetacatUI: A client-side web interface for DataONE data repositories (version 2.23.0). Arctic Data Center. [doi:10.18739/A25M6282K](https://doi.org/10.18739/A25M6282K)

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