DMP Online is the DCC’s data management planning tool, available at dmponline.dcc.ac.uk
Development of the DMP Online by the Digital Curation Centre has been funded by JISC. JISC inspires UK colleges and universities in the innovative use of digital technologies, helping to maintain the UK’s position as a global leader in education. www.jisc.ac.uk
This is just the application code, the accompanying question data available at dmponline.dcc.ac.uk is not included.
The tool has three main functions
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To help create and maintain different versions of Data Management Plans;
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To provide useful guidance on data management issues and how to meet research funders’ requirements;
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To export attractive and useful plans in a variety of formats.
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Please read the documentation on the wiki at github.com/DigitalCurationCentre/DMPOnline/wiki
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You can contact us by email, dmponline@dcc.ac.uk, but we can only provide limited support for your installation
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Bug Reports & Feature Requests: github.com/DigitalCurationCentre/DMPOnline/issues
DMP Online is a Ruby on Rails application and you’ll need to have Ruby 1.9.2 or greater installed on your server and a MySQL server v5.0 or greater.
Further details on how to install Ruby on Rails applications are available from the Ruby on Rails site, rubyonrails.org
While not a prerequisite, we are running this using Phusion Passenger 3 (www.modrails.com) with an Apache webserver on Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5.
For the PDF conversion we use the shell utility wkhtmltopdf (code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf) which will need to be installed on your server.
After downloading, create a config/database.yml file based on the provided config/database_example.yml file. Currently only MySQL databases are supported.
Edit the configuration files at config/environments to include your contact email addresses.
Edit the configuration setting config.action_mailer.default_url_options in config/application.rb
Edit values for config.mailer_sender and config.pepper in config/initializers/devise.rb
Set a secret token in config/initializers/secret_token.rb
Review the application configuration settings in config/initializers/dmponline.rb
If wkhtmltopdf is not installed to /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf then you will need to edit the config value in config/initializers/wicked_pdf.rb
You’ll need to install the gems, build the database and then (in a development environment) start the server:
$> bundle update $> rake db:setup $> rails server
Then go to localhost:3000
The database seed data will give you three users:
- admin@example.com
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Full system admin user
- organisation@example.com
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A dummy organisation admin user
- user@example.com
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A normal end user
The password for each of these is ‘password’
DMP Online is built using a number of other open source projects, including
- Active Admin
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A framework for creating administration-style interfaces.
- Formtastic
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A DSL for semantically building forms.
- Devise
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User authentication is done using Devise
- jQuery UI
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Library of user interface effects built on the jQuery JavaScript library. jqueryui.com
- Highcharts JS
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JavaScript library for creating interactive charts. Not free for commercial use: shop.highsoft.com/highcharts.html
- Iconic Icons
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SVG icon set designed by P.J. Onori: somerandomdude.com/projects/iconic
- wkhtmltopdf
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A command line tool for creating PDFs from HTML: code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
The SWORD functionality is drawn from coding by Cottage Labs done as part of a JISC-funded University of Oxford DMP Online project to extend this application.
Copyright © 2012 Digital Curation Centre, University of Edinburgh. See AGPL-LICENSE for details.