Photographic transcription of the Egypt Exploration Society Archives

An application for interacting with the Egypt Exploration Society Flickr stream to produce structured, transcribed data from their rich image archive. This version is for the transcription of the Armant archive.

This application has four files:

template.html: the view for every task and deal with the data of the answers.
tutorial.html: a simple tutorial for the volunteers.
project.json: the setup metadata (make sure name and short name are unique, or create will fail.)
long_description.md: the long description for the app.

This uses the built in Flickr importer to add images.

Creating the application

You need to use the PBS command line interface for creating and updating the project.

Create an account in PyBossa
Copy from your account profile your API-KEY
Navigate to your home directory and create a file called .pybossa.cfg
Within this file add following lines:

   [default]
   server: http://crowdsourced.micropasts.org
   apikey: API-KEY

Now clone the code to your server and change directory into the folder:

   $ git clone https://github.com/MicroPasts/egyptExplorationSociety.git applicationName
   $ cd applicationName

Now run:

   $ pbs create_project

This should have created the project.
If the long description has not appeared, then run the update project command as shown below

Documentation

We recommend that you read the section: Build with PyBossa and follow the step by step tutorial.

Updating template

After making changes to your source code and committing to github do the following:

Clone or pull changes from repo to your server and then issue this command:

    $ pbs update_project

Template should update

Adding tasks to project

As we use flickr for hosting the images, you should just be able to use the built in flickr importer. All you need to do is get the set number and enter this into the importer.

Change redundancy of tasks

To update all of them:

    $ pbs update-task-redundancy --redundancy 3

LICENSE

Please, see the COPYING file.

Acknowledgments

This application is on behalf of the Egypt Exploration Society.

MicroPasts/armant