cortext/cortext-graphs

Cortext Graphs exploration annotation web app built on top of Meteor and Sigma.js

cortext-graphs

Système de visualisation pour l’annotation web de cartographie de réseau

License

• CorText Graphs" is a Free Software under GNU AGPL made by the Cortext research team at IFRIS Université Paris-Est

Quick Start

• install and configure Meteor version >= 0.5.0

    curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

• supported platforms
• clone this repository
• start on http://localhost:3000

    meteor

Deploy

• on meteor.com servers, eg. on http://cortext.meteor.com

  meteor deploy cortext

• on your own server with node >= 0.8 and MongoDB:

  meteor bundle myapp.tgz

  log into your server PORT=3000 MONGO_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/cortextgraphs node bundle/main.js

Structure

• public directory contains public static files served a the server's root path
• client contains all the client-side HTML, Javascript and CSS of this application
• server contains files containing server-side data collections: for now its only a notes collection

Building blocks

• It's a single page application build upon Backbone.js
• It's driven by the Meteor framework, including (but not only) MongoDB and Handlebars templates
• Graph visualization is handled by Sigma.js leveraging HTML5's CANVAS
  • note that a slightly modified version of sigma.js has been developed to support the cluster's layer need for this application