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On our hard-drives, we collect software, photos, development sources, documents, music, e-mail, and much more. The typical application sees this `collecting' as secundary problem to their main task, offering little help in administering the data produced with it. CPAN6 focusses purely on this aspect, and can therefore improve the way people work in general.</p> </div> <p>There are many kinds of digital collections, like ftp-servers and home-directories, but as far as known, there is no infrastructure like CPAN6 which is designed to manage groups of collections in a simple way. Managing collections is a basic need for many kinds of applications, but there is not yet a common infrastructure to do it.</p> <ul class="box marge bg_grey rounded pointer"> <li>The project's own website: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220111010258/https://cpan6.org/">https://web.archive.org/web/20220111010258/https://cpan6.org/</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col3 reorder2"> <div> <div> <h2>Project CPAN6</h2> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/project/cpan6/">introduction</a></li> <li><a href="/project/cpan6/description.html">description</a></li> <li><a href="/project/cpan6/how.html">organization and status</a></li> </ul> </div> <h3>Navigate projects</h3> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/project/current.html">Currently running</a></li> <li><a href="/project/index.html">All projects</a></li> <li><a href="/thema/index.html">Thematic index</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="part"> <h3>Search</h3> <form onsubmit="/js/searchbutton.js" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search/static.html" class="sitesearch"><input id="searsia-input" type="text" name="q" class="form-control" value="" autocomplete="off" /><label for="searsia-input"><span class="hide">Search</span></label><input type="submit" id="searsiasubmit" name="submit" value="Search" /><label for="searsiasubmit"><span class="hide">Submit search</span></label></form> </div> </div> </div> </div> <footer> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col3"><strong>NLnet</strong><ul class="menu"> <li><a href="/foundation/">Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/people/">People</a></li> <li><a href="/press/">Press</a></li> <li><a href="/foundation/media-coverage/">In the media</a></li> <li><a href="/contact/">Contact</a></li> <li><a href="/privacy/">Privacy statement</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col3"><strong>News & events</strong><ul class="menu"> <li><a href="/news/">News</a></li> <li><a href="/events/">Events</a></li> <li><a href="/webinars/">Webinars</a></li> <li><a href="/tour-schedule/">NGI Zero Tour Schedule</a></li> <li><a href="/speakerbureau/">Speaker bureau</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col3"><strong>Connect with us</strong><ul class="menu"> <li><a href="https://social.nlnet.nl/@nlnet" rel="me">Fediverse: NLnet</a></li> <li><a href="https://mastodon.xyz/@NGIZero" rel="me">Fediverse: NGI Zero</a></li> <li><a href="https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero/">Our podcast</a></li> <li><a href="https://vc.ngi-0.eu/rooms/ahq-y96-uhs-jka/public_recordings">Our webinars</a></li> <li><a href="/feed.atom">RSS feed</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col3"><strong>Site search</strong><p></p> <form onsubmit="/js/searchbutton.js" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search/static.html" class="sitesearch"><input id="searsia-input" type="text" name="q" class="form-control" value="" autocomplete="off" /><label for="searsia-input"><span class="hide">Search</span></label><input type="submit" id="searsiasubmit" name="submit" value="Search" /><label for="searsiasubmit"><span class="hide">Submit search</span></label></form> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col3"><strong>Funding</strong><ul class="menu"> <li><a href="/propose/">Open calls</a></li> <li><a href="/themes/">Theme funds</a></li> <li><a href="/NGI0/">NGI Zero</a></li> <li><a href="/NGI0/services/">Support services</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col3"><strong>Projects</strong><ul class="menu"> <li><a href="/project/">All projects</a></li> <li><a href="/project/current.html">Currently running</a></li> <li><a href="/thema/">Thematic index</a></li> <li><a href="/stories/">Stories</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col3"><strong>Newsletters</strong><ul class="menu"> <li><a href="https://lists.nlnet.nl/mailman3/lists/newsletter.lists.nlnet.nl/">NLnet newsletter</a></li> <li><a href="https://lists.ngi-0.eu/subscribe/ngizero-newsletter">NGI Zero newsletter (subscribe)</a></li> <li><a href="https://lists.ngi-0.eu/rss/latest_arc/ngizero-newsletter?count=20">NGI Zero newsletter (RSS)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col3"><strong>Support NLnet</strong><ul class="menu"> <li><a href="/donating/">Financial contribution</a></li> <li><a href="/help/">Join the Open Invention Network</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </footer> </body> </html>

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