PublishMyData Community Edition

Overview

PublishMyData is a Rails Engine that adds Linked Data functionality to your Rails app including:

URI dereferencing
displaying resources outside your site domain
dataset pages to describe graphs of data with additional metadata
A SPARQL Endpoint
APIs for returning information about individual or fitlerable lists of resources
default HTML views for datasets, resources, ontologies, concept schemes, etc.
an extensible view and style framework using Engines, HAML, and Sass

This is the same core code that powers the enterprise, hosted version of PublishMyData. For more details see the PublishMyData website.

Notes

PublishMyData uses the Tripod ORM for database access.
PublishMyData doesn't supply a database - you need to install and run a triple store yourself. We recommend Fuseki.
better docs coming soon!

Getting started

Also: see our sample app where we've already done all the below! (We'll make a generator for these tasks soon).

Generate a new rails app (without active record or test-unit)
```
rails new hello_world -O -T
```
Add publish_my_data to your Gemfile. The minimal contents of the gemfile are as follows
```
source 'https://rubygems.org'
gem 'rails', '3.2.15'
gem 'publish_my_data'
```

Bundle.

$ bundle

Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/.........
Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
Resolving dependencies...
...
Installing publish_my_data (1.2.0) 
Your bundle is updated!

If you don't see publish_my_data (1.2.0) in the output you may need to run bundle update publish_my_data

Add the following line to production.rb

config.assets.precompile += %w(modernizr.js publish_my_data.js) # <-- required for production

Configure PublishMyData (in development|production|test.rb`)

PublishMyData.configure do |config|
  config.sparql_endpoint = 'http://localhost:3030/pmd/sparql'
  config.local_domain = 'pmd.dev' # the domain under which your linked data resources URIs are minted
  config.sparql_timeout_seconds = 30
  config.tripod_cache_store = nil # Tripod::CacheStores::MemcachedCacheStore.new('localhost:11211')
  config.application_name = "Your Application Name"
end

Mount it in your routes.rb

# Note that there is no default home page route for publish_my_data. You need to define your own. e.g.        

get '/', to: redirect('/data'), as: :home # use the data catalogue

# # or:
# match '/' => 'home#home', as: 'home'

mount PublishMyData::Engine, at: "/"

In order for PublishMyData provided-views to be able to use helpers defined by our app, add the following to your application.rb:

config.to_prepare do
  # include only the ApplicationHelper module in the PMD engine
  PublishMyData::ApplicationController.helper ApplicationHelper
  # # include all helpers from your application into the PMD engine
  # PublishMyData::ApplicationController.helper YourApp::Application.helpers
end

Delete all files from the public dir except the robots.txt.

Create an application layout under app/views/layouts/publish_my_data (i.e. called application.html.haml or application.html.erb etc). NOTE that if you create application.html.haml you should remove the existing application.html.erb file. It should provide content for :head and :global_header, then render pmd_layout. e.g.

- content_for :head do
  %head
    %title
      = appname
      = yield :page_title

    = yield :page_description

    = javascript_include_tag :modernizr
    = javascript_include_tag :publish_my_data
    = stylesheet_link_tag :application

- content_for :global_header do
  My header here

= render template: 'layouts/publish_my_data/pmd_layout'

Add the helpers in your app's ApplicationController, and derive from the PublishMyData engines application controller

class ApplicationController < PublishMyData::ApplicationController
  protect_from_forgery 
  helper PublishMyData::Engine.helpers
  helper :all
end

Remove assets/stylesheets/application.css and create a new file called assets/stylesheets/application.scss which contains the following lines:
```
$pmdconfig_colour_link: #da0;
/* [...optional style configuration...] */
@import "publish_my_data.scss";
```

You can configure the navigation in your application by overriding the views/publish_my_data/stripes/_subnav.html.haml partial to pass in different :menu locals

%nav.pmd_nav_sub
  = row do
    = render partial:'publish_my_data/shared/subnav_box', locals:{menu:standard_menu_catalogue}
    = render partial:'publish_my_data/shared/subnav_box', locals:{menu:standard_menu_tools}
    = render partial:'publish_my_data/shared/subnav_box', locals:{menu:alternative_menu_docs} # <-- # e.g. this line changed:
    = render partial:'publish_my_data/shared/subnav_box', locals:{menu:standard_menu_pmd}

If you define a new helper method to provide the locals (e.g. in our case alternative_menu_docs), it can build upon, and adapt the data stucture provided by the existing helpers in publish_my_data/subnavigation_helper.rb.

Licence

Source code is licensed under the MIT-LICENSE included in this distribution.

Attribution

If you create a website powered by PublishMyData, we'd really appreciate it if you let us know, and also credit us on your website (e.g. with a link in the footer to the github repo or our website). The default footer supplied by the engine does this for you.

Licence Exceptions

The Swirrl logo, which is the mark of Swirrl IT Limited and is copyright ©2013-4 Swirrl IT Limited, is licensed for use with no modification or adaptation permitted. It may be reproduced for purposes of attribution, but not in any way that suggests that Swirrl endorses you or your use.

Contributing

If you want to issue a patch, bug fix or feature, please just issue a pull request (with tests where appropriate). Before accepting your first pull request, we ask you to send us an email agreeing to assigning to Swirrl the copyright for all project contributions. We will release any contibutions under the MIT license.