After installation, k.LAB will be available in your application menu. The installer only writes to the user’s AppData directory, so it should not require administrator permissions to run. Download the Windows installer and run it.To download, install, and launch the Control Center: On systems where you can use a Control Center installer (shown below), it is not necessaryto have Java installed, as the Control Center can download it transparently if needed. The k.LAB Control Center manages the authentication, download, update and execution of all k.LAB products (described below),including the k.LAB engine (with its web-based user interface, k.Explorer) and themodeler’s user interface (k.Modeler). The rest of this page explains how to download and use the Control Center.

To support the needs of students, academics, modelers, and others interested in producing and customizing data and models, the control center also provides access to k.Modeler, our integrated development environment for k.LAB content. The engine provides the network-accessible k.Explorer for each user who runs it you can connect to it through a local link in your web browser. We thus distribute a small software package called the k.LAB Control Center, which simplifies and manages the installation, update, and execution of a dedicated modeling engine on each user’s machine. While this will certainly change in the future, providing such services requires significant resources this approach will probably become available to selected users before we can provide it to all. Therefore, the only tool users need to access k.LAB’s linked data and models is a modern web browser, such as Chrome or Firefox.Ĭurrently, the Integrated Modeling Partnership does not provide public access to a cloud-based installation of k.Explorer (which would let you run k.Explorer by simply opening a web browser and typing in the appropriate URL).

Meanwhile, users will want to produce assessments and explore scenarios, which can be done using a web-accessible application we call k.Explorer. Data and model producers need specialized tools to import, annotate, and publish data and models on the k.LAB semantic web, which makes them easier to share, reuse, and link.

The k.LAB technology and all the projects built with it (such as ARIES) serve the needs of both users and producers of integrated data and model content.

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