Discovery Interface for University of Alberta Libraries

This is the code base for the University of Alberta Libraries's discovery platform. Based on Project Blacklight.

• Depends on Ruby 2.5.x
• Depends on Java (for SolrMarc and Ingestion scripts)
• Depends on an instance of Solr with this configuration
• If you wish to use docker for the datastores install docker and docker-compose first.

Architecture

To get the application up and running for development:

1. clone this repository (git clone https://github.com/ualbertalib/discovery)
2. run docker-compose -f docker-compose.lightweight.yml up -d
3. run bundle install
4. run bundle exec rake db:setup
5. bundle exec rake ingest[database_test_set] && bundle exec rake ingest[sfx_test_set] && bundle exec rake ingest[symphony_test_set] (need Java Installed to run this) If you're looking to use a production like dataset or avoid the hassle of running docker and performing these ingest tasks, export SOLR_URL=http://solrcloud-test.library.ualberta.ca:8080/solr/discovery-test
6. bundle exec rails s
7. Point your browser to http://localhost:3000/catalog

To run the tests:

Unit and Acceptance Tests

1. bundle install --without development production
2. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:create
3. RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake db:migrate
4. bundle exec rake spec

Integration tests (run against http://search-test.library.ualberta.ca/)

1. cpan WWW::Mechanize && cpan JSON && cpan HTML::TreeBuilder::XPath to install perl dependencies
2. wget -O /var/tmp/mobyDick.txt http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2701.txt.utf-8 your first visit to gutenberg might give you non utf-8 characters when it says, "hello stranger."
3. cd test/grabBag
4. ./allTests.pl

Additional Tasks for uat, staging and production

1. bundle exec rake assets:precompile this can take several minutes
2. create cron jobs to ingest bundle exec rake ingest[sfx], bundle exec rake ingest[databases] and clean session table bundle exec rake sessions:cleanup

UAT

Go here for information about accessing Discovery UAT instance.

Ingest

The standard library cataloguing data format is MARC. MARC uses numeric fields to contain bibliographic information in the form of text strings that use a content standard to format the text and, perhaps more importantly, the punctuation. Each MARC field can be subdivided into alphabetical subfields which generally either a) containing repeated elements or b) subdivide the text string. MARC fields and subfields are often written out as e.g. 245$a which means field number 245 (= title), subfield a.

In SolrMarc, the library currently being used to index Blacklight data, the mapping of MARC fields occurs here with more sophisticated data manipulation using BeanShell happening in these scripts. Once the fields have been mapped, they can be designated for search and/or display in the appropriate Solr config file (either schema.xml or solrconfig.xml).

bundle exec rake ingest[collection] where collection is mainly 'symphony', 'sfx', 'kule' or 'databases'. See config/ingest.yml for other collections. Most collections are expected to be represented by a file in a ./data directory.

By default the solr target (:url) is set from '#{Rails.env}' stanza in config/blacklight.yml. Alternately you can set the SOLR_INGEST_URL directly.

export SOLR_INGEST_URL=http://localhost:8983/solr/your-new-solr-collection
bundle exec rake ingest[collection]
unset SOLR_INGEST_URL # if desired