Data Sharing Platform for a Research Group

This is a dissertation project. For more information see in my portfolio: http://www.livia.geo-blog.com/msc-thesis.html

Installation guide

Tested with Python version 3.6.4

Using a virtual environment for python (e.g. virtualenv) is recommended.

Clone the repository

git init

git clone https://github.com/liviajakob/data-sharing-platform

Change to folder

cd data-sharing-platform/data-sharing

Install dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt --user

You might have to follow this (https://pypi.org/project/GDAL/) installation guide to install GDAL.

Generate configuration file

• Run python write_config.py

Optional

• Open write_config.py file in current folder and change database configuration, data input path, data output path or other settings, run it as described above
• When using Oracle make the changes in data-display/models.py suggested in the comments

Ingest Data

The software comes with two example data files in data-sharing/data/input/

Example for file Greenland_1000DEM.tif located in data input folder

python add_dataset.py dem.tif dem 2017-06-26

Add another layer to the dataset with id 1:

python add_layer.py 1 rate.tif rate 2017-06-27

For help type:

python add_dataset.py --help
python add_layer.py --help

Run web application:

python app.py

Access on localhost:5000

Run web API:

python api.py

Access on localhost:5002