/scicatlive

Simple getting started procedure for SciCat

Primary LanguageJavaScript

SciCat

Files for running SciCat with docker-compose.

Steps

  1. Clone the repository 
    git clone https://github.com/SciCatProject/scicatlive.git
  2. Run with the following command inside the directory 
    docker-compose up -d
  3. SciCat will now be available on http://localhost. The Loopback API explorer of catamel is available at http://localhost/explorer/, the one for the search-api at http://localhost/panosc-explorer/.

Add Your Local Configuration

  1. Add your local configuration to config.local.js
  2. Uncomment the volumes: line and the line containing config.local.js in the catamel service section in docker-compose.yaml (if commented)
  3. Restart the docker containers

Add LDAP Authentication

  1. Add your LDAP configuration to providers.json
  2. Uncomment the volumes: line and the line containing providers.json in the catamel service section in docker-compose.yaml
  3. Restart the docker containers

Functional Accounts

There are a few functional accounts available for handling data:

Username Password Usage
admin 2jf70TPNZsS Admin
ingestor aman Ingest datasets
archiveManager aman Manage archiving of datasets
proposalIngestor aman Ingest proposals

Seeding of the database

All files used in the seeding of the database are in the seed folder.

To add more collections during the creation of the database:

  1. add the corresponding file(s) there, keeping the convention: filename := collectionname.json.
  2. Restart the docker container.

These files are ingested into the database using mongo funcionalities and bypassing the catamel backend, i.e. they are not to be taken as examples to use the catamel API.

General use of scicat

To use scicat, please refer to the original documentation