OLDP: Open Legal Data Platform

OLDP written in Python 3 and based on Django web framework, used for processing legal content (court decisions and law text) and providing a RESTful API and Elasticsearch-based search engine.

Install

Requirements:

• Python3 with pip, Virtualenv
• Database (Mysql, SQLite, ...)
• Elasticsearch
• gcc Some python libs
• python-mysqldb, libmysqlclient-dev use MySQL in Python
• gettext for Django locales with msguniq
• pandoc convert docbook to html (import GG)

# Create virtualenv
virtualenv -p python3 env
source env/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
apt-get install -y $(cat apt-requirements.txt)
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Prepare database
./manage.py migrate

Run

Run the following command to start the web app at localhost:8000.

./manage.py runserver 8000

Environment variables

You can override the settings from oldp/settings.py with environment variables:

Variable name	Default value	Comment
DATABASE_URL	mysql://oldp:oldp@127.0.0.1/oldp	Path to database (usually mysql or sqlite)
DJANGO_SECRET_KEY	None	Set this in production mode
DJANGO_ES_URL	http://localhost:9200/oldp	Elasticsearch
DJANGO_DEBUG	True	Dev or production
DJANGO_ADMINS	Admin,admin@openlegaldata.io	Format: Foo,foo@site.com;Bar,bar@site.com
DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS	None	Format: foo.com,bar.net
DJANGO_LANGUAGES_DOMAINS		Format: {'de.foo.com':'de','fr.foo.com':'fr'}
DJANGO_DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL	no-reply@openlegaldata.io
DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST	localhost	...
DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST_USER
DJANGO_EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD
DJANGO_FEEDBACK_EMAIL	feedback@openlegaldata.io	Messages from feedback widget are sent to this address.
DJANGO_TIME_ZONE	UTC
DJANGO_TEST_WITH_ES	False	Run tests that require Elasticsearch
DJANGO_TEST_WITH_WEB	False	Run tests that require web access

Issues

Please use our GitHub issues to report bugs, request feature or simply leave some feedback.

Contact

To contact Open Legal Data Platform, see here:

https://de.openlegaldata.io/contact/

License

OLDP is licensed under the MIT License.