README

Overview

The Keep is a repository-based Django web application for managing digital surrogates or "masters" of archival (and other) source materials. For the first phase of the project, The Keep is intended to handle audio materials only.

The Keep is intended to replace (eventually) the previous system that handled some of this functionality, a Ruby-on-Rails application known as "Digital Masters".

Components

Collection

Functionality for creating, editing, and searching Collection objects that are used to aggregate item-level content, and roughly correspond (in most cases) to a manuscript or archival collection.

Audio

Functionality for ingesting audio content (via single-file or batch upload) into Fedora, editing metadata to describe the audio item, and searching across audio items.

Accounts

Custom login/logout functionality in support of passing user LDAP credentials to Fedora so that objects in the repository will be accessed and updated by the individual user rather than by a single site-wide account. To Access MARBL materal a user will need the common | MARBL Allowed permission. To Access Arrangement materal the user will need common | Arrangement Allowed permission and and entry in the permit-keep-arrangement-admin.xml XACML policy.

Grant access to new / existing users

• Change any Apache / firewall config that is necessary.

• Make sure the user is created in the database:

  • Check by logging in to the site and go to Admin > Users

  • If the userid does not exist, do one of the following:

    1. Go to Admin > Emory ldap user profiles and enter the USERID then click "Add username"

    2. run the following on the command line while in the keep environment:

       $ python ./manage.py inituser USERNAME
       

  • The user should now be in the list.

• For access to Audio only:

  • Go to Admin > Users > USERID
    • Make sure the Active" and the Staff flag is checked and the Superuser flag is NOT checked.
    • In the Permissions box make sure that common | permissions | Access to MARBL material is selected.
    • Save the user.

• For access to BoDA:

  • Go to Admin > Users > USERID
  • Make sure the Active and the Staff flag is checked and the Superuser flag is NOT checked.
  • In the Permissions box make sure that "common | permissions | Access to MARBL material" is selected.
  • In the Permissions box make sure that "common | permissions | Access to Arrangement material" is selected.
  • Save the user.
  • In Fedora go to the policies directory and then to thekeep-policies directory.
  • edit permit-keep-arrangement-admin.xml and add an entry for the USERID in the "Arrangement" section near the bottom of the file.
  • Reload policies.

Common

Common code used by multiple components that does not clearly belong to a single component is placed here. This currently includes a customized Fedora Repository server connection class (:class:`~keep.common.fedora.Repository`), which has logic for accessing Fedora with the credentials of the currently-logged in user, as well as utility methods.

System Dependencies

The Keep requires the following network resources:

• LDAP for user authentication
• Fedora 3.4 with risearch enabled. It should be configured for FeSL LDAP authentication. Note that the localsettings.py requests Fedora user credentials; these are used by command line applications. Users logged into the web application use their own LDAP credentials when accessing Fedora.
• A relational database for user and session information
• Persistent ID manager for minting ARKs to use as object identifiers.
• eXist-db XML database for auto-generating Fedora Collection objects from the corresponding EAD Finding Aids
• RabbitMQ for brokering asynchronous tasks

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For more detailed information, including installation instructions and upgrade notes, see :ref:`DEPLOYNOTES`. For details about the features included in each release, see :ref:`CHANGELOG`. See :ref:`APP_MANAGEMENT` for documentation on application management steps that currently cannot be performed within the web application.