Welcome to Bundessuche! This is a Rails application that allows users to search the Bundesarchiv. You can use it by visiting bundessuche.de. Bundessuche imports apeEAD formatted XML files and makes them searchable. The search is optimized for advanced users and offers the ability to quickly skim large amounts of files. Other options for searching the archive include Archives Portal Europe, Archivportal-D and Invenio (which is directly linked on Bundessuche for checking out the actual archival objects).
Since the deployment of this app runs on ARM64 and there is a bug in Ruby 3.3.0 the Ruby version is currently pinned to 3.2.3.
This application uses Postgresql, database creation and migration is done with the standard Rails tasks.
The test/fixtures/files/dataset* folders contain excerpts of the CC0 licensed data from the german federal archive. You can find the full dataset on open-data.bundesarchiv.de and more information on open data program on their website.
In order to run your own instance you need the full dataset. It's available on open-data.bundesarchiv.de. Since the files are linked individually it's easiest to use an auto downloader to get all the data.
The default location that the importer looks for is the data folder, it's easiest to place your XML files there.
Bundessuche is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) - see the LICENSE file for details. The AGPL is a strong copyleft license that requires you to provide the source code of a modified version of Bundessuche to users even these users only access the software via a network.
If you would like ot use a modified version of Bundessuche in a commercial setting please contact info@bundessuche.de for more information!
This does not cover the fonts used (found in app/assets/fonts/). Both covered by the SIL Open Font License. For details see the fonts section an the respective LICENSE file.
Bundessuche uses two fonts:
Atkinson Hyperlegible is the default font for all text and EB Garamond is used for the 'Bundessuche' title.
Michael Emhofer, emi.industries