/histcross

Historic Crossroads (histcross) was a semantic database - replaced by Segrada.

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=== histcross [historic crossroads] -- README ===

Copyright (c) 2005-2009 Maximilian Kalus <http://www.histcross.org/>

= Licence =

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files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
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= What is histcross =

histcross - the Semantic Database for Historians

Historic Crossroads (histcross) is a semantic database designed
for the research needs of historians. Essentially, it enables
researchers to enter information into the database and link
pieces of this information sematically to each other.


= Installation =

histcross is intended to run on a LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP)
system, but can be run from other configurations as well (such
as lighttpd or on a Windows platform).

Requirements:

- Apache with rewriting capablities and granting access to
  .htaccess-files (could be changed or set in a central file).
- cakephp library (downloaded from www.cakephp.org)
- imagemagick or, better, graphicsmagick with imagemagick-
  wrapper
- graphviz
- sphinx search engine (if full text search needed)

Not all of the requirements are needed - you could live without
the last three ones and still be happy with histcross.