Lumen Database

The Lumen Database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. These data enable us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals.

Automated Submissions and Search Using the API

The main Lumen Database instance has an API that allows individuals and organizations that receive large numbers of notices to submit them without using the web interface. The API also provides an easy way for researchers to search the database. Members of the public can test the database, but will likely need to request an API key from the Lumen team in order to receive a token that provides full acess. To learn about the capabilities of the API you can consult the API documentation.

Development

Requirements:

ruby 2.3.3
PostgreSQL 9.6
Elasticsearch 1.7.6
Java Runtime Environment (OpenJDK works fine)
Piwik Tracking

Setup:

$ bundle install
$ cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
  (edit database.yml as you wish)
  (ensure PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch are running)
$ rake db:setup

Running the app:

$ rails s

Viewing the app:

$BROWSER 'http://localhost:3000'

You can customize behavior during seeding (db:setup) with a couple environment variables:

NOTICE_COUNT=10 will generate 10 (or any number you pass it) notices instead of the default 500
SKIP_FAKE_DATA=1 will skip generating fake seed data entirely.

Admin login:

Username: admin@chillingeffects.org
Password: password

Running Tests:

$ bundle exec rspec spec/

Ephemera

The /blog_entries page contains a google custom search engine that's supposed to search the Lumen blog. To enable, create a custom search engine here restricted to the path the blog lives at, for instance http://www.lumendatabase.org/blog_entries/*. Extract the "cx" id from the javascript embed code and put it in the GOOGLE_CUSTOM_BLOG_SEARCH_ID environment variable. The blog search will appear after this variable has been configured.

Lumen API

You can search the database and, if you have a contributer token, add to the database using our API.

The Lumen API is documented in our GitHub Wiki: https://github.com/berkmancenter/lumendatabase/wiki/Lumen-API-Documentation

License

Lumen Database is licensed under GPLv2. See LICENSE.txt for more information.

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