Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages (AEMA)

This repository contains the latest version of the software code running the AEMA online resource.

• Principal Investigator: John Thomas Kock
• Lead developer: Neil Jakeman

Change log

• May 2021: Converted from SVN, Django 1.5, Python 2 to Github and Django 1.8 and Python 3.6 by Geoffroy Noel, and instance migrated to new virtual machine aema2.
• 2016: Software maintained by KDL
• 2013-2016: Software development

Setup

Install system packages

Geospatial libraries for Django

sudo apt-get install binutils libproj-dev gdal-bin

Local settings

The secret, instance-specific settings should be placed in a local file called:

local_settings.py

Keep this file out of the repository. It should be in the same folder as manage.py.

Install js packages

npm ci

Install the python packages

First create a python virtual environment and activate it.

# this project uses pip-tools
pip install pip-tools
# install the packages from requirements.txt
pip-sync

Update search index

python manage.py rebuild_index