Laravel meetup Ariadne portal
- 1. ARIADNE Portal Creating a research portal for European archaeologists
- 2. About us • Started 2014 (very small scale) • More than 20 years accumulated experience working with solutions for making research data searchable • More than 20 years accumulated experience working with Drupal • Developed 2 portals using Laravel (one with elasticsearch)
- 3. About SND • National research infrastructure • Facilitates access to Swedish research data • Training and support for Swedish researchers • Development of tools and resources
- 4. Case: ARIADNE • EU funded infrastructure project • 4 year project • 24 project partners, 16 countries • Total budget 6 million Euro • Common standards and imperoperability • Common policies and strategies • Tools for data processing, data mining and natural language processing • Training of researchers • Common portal for European archaeological research data and grey literature
- 5. Challenges • No common infrastructure • No common standards • Very varying level of technological expertise • Political challenges • Communication and coordination challenges
- 6. Technical workflow Data + Metadata Data + Metadata Data + Metadata Excel Files OAI-PMH XML Aggregation Infrastructure Portal Infrastructure Validation Enrichment Publication Thesauri Mappings Temporal Mappings ACDM ACDM Enriched
- 8. elasticsearch • Json document based • Built in replication for multiple nodes (if needed) • Uses lucene index • Handles many specialized fieldtypes eg. dates, numbers, geoshapes etc • REST based API • Official clients in Java, Groovy, python, .net, Perl, Ruby and PHP
- 10. Indexing a doucment Inserting a new document is easy
- 11. Indexing a doucment Inserting a new document is easy Id Type Index
- 12. Search for a document Inserting a new document is easy Id Type Index
- 13. Mappings • Mappings not needed, elastic will ”guess” the field type ad create a mapping • Mappings are need for creating filters and buckets
- 14. Some Examples • Live demo!
- 15. Laravel and elasticsearch • Composer library: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-php • Sourcecode for the ariadne laravel portal: https://github.com/dainst/ariadne-portal