Source Management

You can use the intuitive IKANOW Source Manager GUI  to consume data from a variety of sources and media types including:

• Web based content accessible via URL including:
  • Static HTML content;
  • RSS and ATOM based news feeds;
  • Restful web services interfaces.
• Traditional relational database management systems (RDBMS) via Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) drivers;
• Files located on local and network attached storage devices.

Once the source data is ingested, the Community Edition (CE) platform has a variety of visualization widgets and features to help you analyze the data to gain insights and see connections.

Source Management Capabilities

CE includes Source Manager, a powerful suite of user interfaces and tools designed to make it easy to get sources into the platform for analysis purposes.

Using Source Editor you can create new sources from  templates, test/validate them, and then publish them to the communities of choice for sharing.  Some of the other interfaces enable you to upload JSON documents and binary files, as well as plugins and queries for more advanced source management and querying capabilities.

For more information, see section Source Manager User Guide.

Audience

Many of the source management interfaces are suitable for use by the typical all-source, or cyber analyst and do not require "power user" or development know-how.  As such, this user documentation focuses on the Source Manager use cases targeted at this audience.

That being said, source management is intrinsically an advanced topic, especially when taking into consideration CE's highly flexible, and extensible platform with its own customization engine.  For advanced source management topics a development background and firm understanding of concepts such as natural language processing (NLP), and big data are essential.  Advanced users can also consult the API Reference documentation, as well as Developer Guides and Tutorials.