This repository lists projects and websites part of the NYC Space/Time Directory, how they were built, and how they work together. You can also see the project’s interactive architecture diagram for more information.
- Description: Project’s homepage
- URL: http://spacetime.nypl.org
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/nypl-spacetime.github.io
- Technology: Static Jekyll website, hosted via GitHub Pages
- Dependencies: Users can download open historical geospatial datasets via the project’s homepage, they are hosted on AWS S3
- Description: Website for crowdsourced geotagging of NYPL’s photo collections
- URL: http://spacetime.nypl.org/surveyor
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/surveyor
- Technology: React app, hosted on GitHub Pages. Surveyor reads photo data from the Brick-by-brick API, and writes submissions there, too
- Dependencies: Brick-by-brick API
- Description: Map and search interface for NYC Space/Time Directory data
- URL: http://spacetime.nypl.org/atlas
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/atlas
- Technology: React app, hosted on GitHub Pages
- Dependencies: Search API
- Description: Website to browse digitized and georectified NYPL maps in a visual way
- URL: http://spacetime.nypl.org/maps-by-decade
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/maps-by-decade
- Technology: React app, hosted on GitHub Pages. Maps by Decade needs two JSON data files to function, but does not depend on a database or API
- Dependencies:
group-mapsdataset on AWS S3 (served via CloudFront)
- Description: Browser extension that shows a photo from Ditigal Collections when users open a new tab
- URL: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2017/08/31/digital-collections-tab
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/digital-collections-tab
- Technology: HTML + JavaScript
- Dependencies: Brick-by-brick (but the Tab extension will keep working with a set of offline images when Brick-by-brick is offline)
- Description: Collection of Node.js modules that download, parse, and transform data from a selection of NYPL resources and create NYC Space/Time Directory datasets
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/spacetime-etl
- Technology: Node.js
- Dependencies: different NYPL resources, like Map Warper, Building Inspector, etc.
- Description: NDJSON and ZIP files containing historical geospatial data, scripts are available to create derivatives and upload data to S3
- URL: http://spacetime.nypl.org/#data
- Dependencies: AWS S3
- Description: Location where NYC Space/Time Directory data is stored
- URL: https://s3.amazonaws.com/spacetime-nypl-org/
- Dependencies: AWS
- Description: Search API for NYC Space/Time Directory data
- URL: https://fpr9gjsw3c.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/dev/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/spacetime-api
- Technology: Serverless Node.js Express app on AWS Lambda
- Dependencies: AWS Elasticsearch index, with NYC Space/Time Directory data, ingested with
etl-elasticsearch-ingest
- Description: Simple JSON API for small crowdsourcing apps
- URL: http://brick-by-brick.herokuapp.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/brick-by-brick
- Technology: Node.js/Express API, with PostgreSQL database
- Dependencies: Heroku
- Description: Interactive architecture diagram of components of NYC Space/Time Directory
- URL: http://spacetime.nypl.org/architecture/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/architecture
- Technology: HTML + JavaScript
- Dependencies:
data-dependenciesdataset on AWS S3 (served via CloudFront)
- Description: Website for crowdsourced map georectification
- URL: http://maps.nypl.org/warper/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/nypl-warper
- Technology: Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL database, as well as GDAL and GeoServer
- Dependencies: Server hosted by NYPL’s IT Department
- Description: Crowdsourced extraction of building and address data from historical maps
- URL: http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/
- GitHub: https://github.com/nypl-spacetime/building-inspector
- Technology: Ruby on Rails with PostgreSQL database
- Dependencies: Heroku