CLAM

Quickly turn command-line applications into RESTful webservices with a web-application front-end. You provide a specification of your command line application, its input, output and parameters, and CLAM wraps around your application to form a fully fledged RESTful webservice.
Go to the software website https://proycon.github.io/clam

Provided tools & services

clam

CLAM Data & Client API - programming library for Python
Type
  • Software Library
Executable name
clam

clamnewproject

Developer tool to create a new CLAM project
Type
  • Command-line Application
Executable name
clamnewproject

clamservice

Webservice daemon, the core component of CLAM. May be invoked directly in development, often invoken indirectly via WSGI in production environments.
Type
  • Server Application
Executable name
clamservice

References

Citation

Please use one of the above reference publications to cite the software, if you want to cite the software directly, you can use the following citation generated from the metadata:

(2025) CLAM 3.2.14 .
  • Centre for Language and Speech Technology
  • Humanities Cluster
.

Logs & Reviews

Name
Automatic software metadata validation report for CLAM 3.2.14
Author
  • codemetapy validator using software.ttl
Date
2026-02-07 03:04:36
Review
Validates perfectly, no further remarks!
Rating
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 
(log file starts at Sat Feb  7 03:04:34 UTC 2026)

[harvester info] --> Processing clam (https://github.com/proycon/clam) [Sat Feb  7 03:04:34 UTC 2026]

[harvester info] Git updating cached clone of https://github.com/proycon/clam...

[harvester info] Found release v3.2.14

[harvester info] Using 'v3.2.14'

[harvester info] Git reference: v3.2.14

[harvester info] Scanning directory /tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache/clam for harvestable resources...

[harvester info] found codemeta.json for clam (md5sum e139773f6088da6264f128f7653b9127); **NOTE: this is considered authoritative and most other detection methods will be skipped now!**

[harvester info] Inferring repostatus information from git activity (used only as a fallback if not explicitly provided)...

[harvester info] Inferred repostatus https://www.repostatus.org/#active

[harvester info] Looking for repostatus information in README.rst in master branch...

[harvester info] Found repostatus (master branch) https://www.repostatus.org/#active

[harvester info] Reconciliating: codemetapy  --baseuri https://tools.clariah.nl --baseuri https://tools.clariah.nl --includecontext --addcontext https://w3id.org/nwo-research-fields --addcontext https://w3id.org/research-technology-readiness-levels --addcontextgraph https://vocabs.dariah.eu/rest/v1/tadirah/data?format=text/turtle --trl --identifier "clam" --codeRepository "https://github.com/proycon/clam" --validate /etc/software.ttl --released --enrich --textv "Please consult the CLARIAH Software Metadata Requirements at https://github.com/CLARIAH/clariah-plus/blob/main/requirements/software-metadata-requirements.md for an in-depth explanation of any found problems" -O /tmp/out/clam.codemeta.json /tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/99-repostatus.clam.codemeta.json /tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/10-jsonld.clam.codemeta.json /tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/05-repostatus.clam.codemeta.json 

-- begin log --

/usr/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pyshacl/extras/__init__.py:6: UserWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API. See https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/pkg_resources.html. The pkg_resources package is slated for removal as early as 2025-11-30. Refrain from using this package or pin to Setuptools<81.

  import pkg_resources

Passed 3 files/sources but specified 0 input types! Automatically guessing types...

Detected input types: [('/tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/99-repostatus.clam.codemeta.json', 'json'), ('/tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/10-jsonld.clam.codemeta.json', 'json'), ('/tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/05-repostatus.clam.codemeta.json', 'json')]

Adding to contextgraph: /tmp/turtle

Initial URI automatically generated, may be overriden later: https://tools.clariah.nl/clam

Processing source #1 of 3

Parsing json-ld file from /tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/99-repostatus.clam.codemeta.json

    NOTE: Not a valid JSON-LD document, @context missing! Attempting to inject automatically...

    Injected (possibly temporary) URI https://tools.clariah.nl/clam

[CODEMETA COMPOSITION (https://tools.clariah.nl/clam)] processed 1 new triples, total is now 2

Processing source #2 of 3

Parsing json-ld file from /tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/10-jsonld.clam.codemeta.json

    Injected (possibly temporary) URI https://tools.clariah.nl/clam

[CODEMETA 2 TO 3] Updating contIntegration -> continuousIntegration

[CODEMETA 2 TO 3] Updating targetProduct -> isSourceCodeOf

[CODEMETA 2 TO 3] Updating targetProduct -> isSourceCodeOf

[CODEMETA 2 TO 3] Updating targetProduct -> isSourceCodeOf

[CODEMETA CORRECTION (clam)] automatically converting spdx license URI from https:// to http:///

[CODEMETA COMPOSITION (clam)] processed 139 new triples, total is now 139

Processing source #3 of 3

Parsing json-ld file from /tmp/codemeta-harvester.cache//tmp/05-repostatus.clam.codemeta.json

    NOTE: Not a valid JSON-LD document, @context missing! Attempting to inject automatically...

    Injected (possibly temporary) URI https://tools.clariah.nl/clam

[CODEMETA COMPOSITION (clam)] processed 1 new triples, total is now 139

Remapping URI to (possibly) new identifier and version component: https://tools.clariah.nl/clam -> https://tools.clariah.nl/clam/3.2.14

[CODEMETA VALIDATION (clam)] done

[CODEMETA ENRICHMENT (clam)] adding author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1046-0006 as contributor

[CODEMETA ENRICHMENT (clam)] considering first author as maintainer

-- end log --

[harvester info] Output written to /tmp/out/clam.codemeta.json

[harvester info] <-- Finished processing clam (https://github.com/proycon/clam) [Sat Feb  7 03:04:37 UTC 2026]

Metadata Properties

Version
3.2.14 (release notes)
Interface types
  • Command-line Application
  • Server Application
  • Software Library
Software website
Source code repository
 https://github.com/proycon/clam Stars are an indicator of the popularity of this project on GitHub
Keywords
  • natural language processing
  • nlp
  • rest
  • webservice
Development Status
  • 9 - Proven: Technology complete and proven in practice by real users.
  • Active: The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.
Issue Tracker (Support)
https://github.com/proycon/clam/issues The number of open issues on the issue tracker The number of closes issues on the issue tracker
Documentation
License
Author(s)
Maintainer(s)
Contributor(s)
Producer
Programming Language
  • python
Continuous Integration Tests
None
Operating System
  • Linux
Software dependencies
  • flask
Metadata validation
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Created
2010-03-21
Last modified
2025-10-22 Last commit (main branch). Gives an indication of project development activity and rough indication of how up-to-date the latest release is. Number of commits since the last release. Gives an indication of project development activity and rough indication of how up-to-date the latest release is.