oilspillsnear.me

Putting oil spills around you on a map

Do you know what oil spills have occurred close to you in the last years? Do you know what their impact on environment and society might have been? With oilspillsnear.me, you can have a look at a global map of oil spills, as well as their impacts on the environment and industry of the nearest country. It also gives perspective on what still needs to be done: View how much offshore oil rigs your country still has, and learn about initiatives that you can back to reduce our dependence on these dangerous forms of energy.

This project has been built as a final project for a course on Semantic Web technologies at the VU Amsterdam. It is built upon linked data formalisms, using custom-made OWL ontologies that are served from a Stardog triple store.

See our screencast on YouTube for a visual introduction to the application!

Installation

To get started, you'll need the Node.js environment and the Yarn package manager. Once you have those installed, you can set up the two main components of the system: the server backend and the frontend client.

Quick Deployment

First, make sure you have a Stardog instance running (typically through stardog-admin.bat server start --disable-security). Create a database osnm and load all RDFs of the sources folder into that DB:

stardog data remove --all osnm
stardog data add osnm sources/*

Once the database is set up and running, run the following sequence of commands, starting in the root directory of this repository:

cd client
yarn
yarn build
cd ..
cd server
yarn
yarn start

The server should now be listening on localhost:3001.

Development Setup

Stardog

Follow the same steps as outlined above to set up the Stardog database.

Server

To fetch and install dependencies, run the following command from the server directory:

yarn

To run the server, run:

yarn start

It should now be listening on localhost:3001, although you'll need to build the client first to see actual browser pages being served.

Client

To fetch and install dependencies, run the following command from the client directory:

yarn

To run the client in development mode (recompiling automatically on change), run:

yarn start

The client development server is listening on localhost:3000.

To build the client (to be served as a bundle by the server), run:

yarn build