What Overture is made of
Eight components, grouped by what they do. Take one where you have a gap, or the whole stack as a platform.
| Component | What it does | Documentation | Used by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CollectGetting data in and keeping it describable. A dictionary defines what the platform accepts, and the submission, metadata and transfer services hold you to it. | |||
| Component | What it does | Documentation | Used by |
 Dictionary ManagerLectern | Defines and version-tracks the data dictionaries a platform validates submissions against. | Documentation | 4 deployments |
 Tabular SubmissionLyric | Validates and commits tabular submissions against a dictionary, keeping every change auditable. | Documentation | 2 deployments |
 File ManagerSong | Catalogs file metadata across repositories, assigning global identifiers and controlling what gets published. | Documentation | 3 deployments |
 File TransferScore | Moves large files to and from cloud storage, with resumable transfers and BAM/CRAM slicing. | Documentation | 3 deployments |
| ExploreMaking what you collected findable. Distributed metadata becomes one index, the index becomes a search API, and the API becomes a portal people can use. | |||
| Component | What it does | Documentation | Used by |
 Indexing ServiceMaestro | Indexes metadata from File Manager and Tabular Submission repositories into one searchable index. | Documentation | 2 deployments |
 SearchArranger | Builds a search API and matching UI components from any Elasticsearch or OpenSearch index. | Documentation | 7 deployments |
 Portal UIStage | A React framework for a data portal's front end, themed and extended per deployment. | Documentation | 4 deployments |
| ControlAccess and authorization sit around both groups rather than inside them. Every component delegates to Keycloak, so a deployment applies its own institution's identity rules across the whole stack, and an Overture provider extension adds API keys for command line and programmatic access.Configuring access and authorization | |||
| Component | What it does | Documentation | Used by |
 TBD | In development: an authorization service that works with Keycloak, so administrators can define their data access policy declaratively, in common spoken language, across every Overture component. | GitHub repository | 2 deployments |