Catamount

Catamount is a proof-of-concept Rails application for building services around Collections as Data at the Penn State University Libraries.

Requirements

Catamount is built on:

• Ruby 2.6.5
• Rails 6.0.2.1
• PostgreSQL 12.2
• Bootstrap 4.4.1

Catamount ships with the friendly_id gem, which it uses to make more human-readable URLs for collections and items.

Universal Viewer

Catamount ships with the Universal Viewer. Universal Viewer consumes IIIF manifests from our CONTENTdm instance, where available, and makes the resulting images and metadata available alongside transcriptions of the original text. This allows users who do not intend to perform computational analysis of a text corpus to still interact with the transcripts in a meaningful way.

Universal Viewer is available in the app/assets/javascripts directory of the application; it is not installed using npm, as Bootstrap is. Catamount runs on uv-3.0.16.

Setup

• Clone the repository
• Run bundle install
• Run rake db:* to set up the database

You'll need to set POSTGRES_USER and POSTGRES_PWD environment variables for logging in to postgres, if you need credentials.

Wait, isn't "catamount" Vermont's mascot?

"Catamount" is a cool name for a mountain lion no matter who uses it

Contact

kmc35 at psu dot edu