État Civil

For the period 1790-1890, France was the only country to keep systematic (tabular) track of their expatriate citizens making it possible to study international mobility at scale and in novel ways. The Archives of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs hold 120,000 digitised microfilm images of the records from 215 consulates around the world.

The "État Civil" -- standing for civil registration of births, deaths and marriages -- is an exploratory project led by Dr David Todd in collaboration with King's Digital Lab supported by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, the Department of History at King's College London and the Harvard and Cambridge Centre for History and Economics. The project processes data from the Egyptian consulate of the "État Civil" to visualise mobility on a continental or global scale and offer insights on patterns of migration and social history more in general.

Settings

See detailed cookiecutter-django settings documentation.

Running

Getting Started on a Mac

Install Developer Tools, in a Terminal window:

$ xcode-select --install

Install and start Docker.

Clone the repository, https://github.com/kingsdigitallab/etat-civil-django, in a Terminal window, for example:

$ cd Documents
$ git clone https://github.com/kingsdigitallab/etat-civil-django.git
$ cd etat-civil-django

Start the project:

$ ./bake.py up --build

Create a superuser, in a different Terminal window, inside the Etat Civil project:

$ ./bake.py manage createsuperuser

To import data via the browser the data processing worker needs to be running, start it with:

$ ./bake.py rqworker default

The project should be available at http://localhost:8000/. Go to http://localhost:8000/admin/deeds/data/ to import a new Excel file. The import process might take a few minutes to import all the data in the spreadsheet.

See also the more detailed cookiecutter-django development with Docker documentation.

Basic Commands

Setting Up Your Users

• To create a normal user account, just go to Sign Up and fill out the form. Once you submit it, you'll see a "Verify Your E-mail Address" page. Go to your console to see a simulated email verification message. Copy the link into your browser. Now the user's email should be verified and ready to go.

• To create an superuser account, use this command:

  $ ./bake.py manage createsuperuser

For convenience, you can keep your normal user logged in on Chrome and your superuser logged in on Firefox (or similar), so that you can see how the site behaves for both kinds of users.

Type checks

Running type checks with mypy:

$ mypy {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}

Test coverage

To run the tests, check your test coverage, and generate an HTML coverage report:

$ coverage run -m pytest
$ coverage html
$ open htmlcov/index.html

Running tests with py.test

$ pytest