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The DC21 application is a Ruby on Rails application built by Intersect Australia for the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment as part of an ANDS-Funded Data Capture Project - DC21 - Climate Change and Energy Research Facilities

Please feel free to browse any of the following documentation.

For everyone:

• Product Overview
• Cucumber Features - these are our automated acceptance tests, and they express (in plain English) the requirements of the system. This is a great place to start if you want to get an understanding of what the system does. There's a number of different ways to access them:
  • Browse on Github.
  • Clone the repository and browse in your preferred tool.
• Overview Diagram

For deployers:

• Deployment Guide - instructions on how to install the application.
• Automated Ingest from PC Guide - how to automatically send files to DC21 from a PC

For developers:

• Developers Guide - useful information for future developers of the application.
• Domain Model - overview of the domain concepts in the system.
• Supporting Other File Formats - currently DC21 does special processing on TOA5 files (these come from Campbell Scientific loggers), other files are accepted, but no special processing is done. Other file formats can easily be supported - see the wiki page for details.
• API Documentation - details of the API for automatically uploading/downloading files
• RSpec tests - the RSpec examples express the detailed requirements so are a good place to start getting an understanding of what the system does. There's a number of different ways to access them:
  • Browse on Github.
  • Clone the repository and browse in your preferred tool.