Alice

A database of tools (and other things) for the digital liberal arts.

Purpose

The goal of the Alice database is to provide a system for curating information regarding tools and their application in the digital liberal arts. It allows the tracking of the following verticals:

• analyses/methods (e.g., network diagramming)
• software tools (e.g., NodeXL)
• datasets (e.g., a set of labeled Tweets)
• projects (e.g., performing network analysis using NodeXL over labeled Tweets)

Storing this data is only part of Alice's goal. The mission critical functionality includes:

• easily searchable, including advanced search operations
• easily browsable for casual discovery

With these verticals and information discovery goals met, users can find and share tools, methods, datasets, and examples of how to use them.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

Installing

Please see INSTALLING.md.

Other info

Development of this project is funded through the Digital Liberal Arts Grant from The Davis Foundation to Endicott College (awarded November 2016).

Some of this code, mostly concerning user management, was modified from Code Annotator. Much of that was based on the wonderful Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl.