This is the rails program that powers the data catalog system used by the Kellogg Biological Station Long Term Ecological Research Program. http://lter.kbs.msu.edu/datatables
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The system is modeled loosely on the EML schema dataset, datatable, person and protocol modules. The main parts of the system are:
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Dataset
Datasets are the container of multiple datatables. This component groups datatables together, the datatables in the dataset are listed under "Related Tables" on the show page for the datatable. A dataset can be converted to an eml document by sending the
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Datatable
Datatables present one table of data to the user. They can be backed by a database table or view or a data url that points elsewhere. Datatables describe the location of the data and how to retrieve it as well as a connection point for the list of variates associated with the table.
A datatable has many variates and a variate has a unit.
The ``/datasets.xml` endpoint generates a metacat style harvest list of the public datasets that are marked "pasta ready" in dataset table.
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Protocol
A protocol is linked to datatables,they can also be linked to datasets but that usage is deprecated. For datasets the protocols of the datatables are collected and presented as a group.
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Person
The Person model represents a person. It is associated through the association table with datasets, datatables, and protocols. Persons can have several roles.
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Citation
The Citation model represents a publication such as a journal article.
A Rails compatible database and driver, libxml and libxslt for nokogiri. The search functionality depends on the sphinx search daemon. Thinking sphinx requires libmysqlclient-dev to be installed.
git clone https://github.com/kf8a/metadata.git
cd metadata
bundle
Copy the config/database.yml.example to config/database.yml and fill in the local values for the database to be used
rake db:migrate
rails s
Then go to `http://localhost:3000/datatables
To test
rake test