APIS

The Austrian Prosophographic Information System is a Django based prosopography framework. It allows to create web applications to manage both entities and relations between entities. It provides API access to the data in various formats and creates swagger defintions. A swagger-ui allows for comfortable access to the data.

Data can also be imported from remote resources described in RDF.

In addition to this configurable import of data via RDF, there is also an configurable serialization of data. The generic RestAPI of APIS provides data either in the internal JSON format, TEI or RDF (serialized with CIDOC CRM).

APIS comes with a built in system of autocompletes that allows researchers to import meta-data of entities with just a single click. Out of the box APIS supports Stanbol as a backend for the autocompletes, but the system is rather easy to adapt to any Restfull API. APIS also supports the parsing of RDFs describing entities into an entity. The parsing is configured in a settings file.

Entities

Relations

Licensing

All code unless otherwise noted is licensed under the terms of the MIT License (MIT). Please refer to the file LICENSE.txt in the root directory of this repository.

All documentation and images unless otherwise noted are licensed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

APIS contains the "Material Symbols" font(commit ace1af0), which is licenced under the Apache Licence Version 2.0.

Installation

Create a project using your favourite package manager:

poetry new foobar-repository

In your project folder, add apis as a dependency (replace RELEASE_VERSION with the version you want to install):

poetry add git+https://github.com/acdh-oeaw/apis-core-rdf#RELEASE_VERSION

Now remove the generated __init__.py (because django-admin wants to be the one that creates that) and setup your Django project

rm -f foobar_repository/__init__.py
poetry run django-admin startproject foobar_repository .

Now start using your Django project

poetry run ./manage.py runserver

To use the APIS framework in your application, you will need to add the following dependencies to INSTALLED_APPS:

apis-core-rdf/sample_project/settings.py

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	INSTALLED_APPS = [
	# our main app, containing the ontology (in the `models.py`)
	# and our customizations
	"sample_project",
	# `apis_override_select2js` is a workaround for APIS'
	# handling of autocomplete forms. It should be listed
	# at the beginning of the list, to make sure the
	# files shipped with it are served in precedence.
	"apis_override_select2js",
	"django.contrib.admin",
	"django.contrib.auth",
	"django.contrib.contenttypes",
	"django.contrib.sessions",
	"django.contrib.messages",
	"django.contrib.staticfiles",
	# ui stuff used by APIS
	"crispy_forms",
	"crispy_bootstrap4",
	"django_filters",
	"django_tables2",
	"dal",
	"dal_select2",
	# REST API
	"rest_framework",
	# swagger ui generation
	"drf_spectacular",
	# The APIS apps
	"apis_core.core",
	"apis_core.generic",
	"apis_core.apis_metainfo",
	"apis_core.apis_relations",
	"apis_core.apis_entities",
	# apis_vocabularies is deprecated, but there are
	# still migrations depending on it - it will be dropped
	# at some point
	"apis_core.apis_vocabularies",
	# APIS collections provide a collection model similar to
	# SKOS collections and allow tagging of content
	"apis_core.collections",
	# APIS history modules tracks changes of instances over
	# time and lets you revert changes
	"apis_core.history",
	]

Finally, add the APIS urls to your applications URL Dispatcher

apis-core-rdf/sample_project/urls.py

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	urlpatterns = [
	path("", include("apis_core.urls", namespace="apis")),
	# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/topics/auth/default/#module-django.contrib.auth.views
	path("accounts/", include("django.contrib.auth.urls")),
	# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/ref/contrib/admin/#hooking-adminsite-to-urlconf
	path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
	]

Now you should be ready to roll. Start creating your entities in you apis_ontology/models.py.