Welcome to the EHRI documentation

Welcome to the EHRI documentation pages. This documentation is intended for people working on the EHRI project or affiliated with the EHRI consortium. For general information about the EHRI project please go to:

• The EHRI Project Homepage
• The EHRI Portal
• The EHRI Document Blog

For EHRI staff and administrators:

• Portal Administrator documentation
  • Accessing the Portal Administration pages
  • Users
  • Groups
  • Permissions
  • EAD Ingest
  • SKOS Ingest
  • Superuser Administration Tools
  • Use-Cases

For developers and system administrators:

Backend Web Service

• EHRI Portal Back-end Technical Documentation
  • Overview of the EHRI Data Management Backend
  • The Backend Model Layer
  • Validation & Persistence
  • Serialization
  • Setup of development environment
  • Initialising a fresh Neo4j database and importing some data
  • Deployment
  • Loading JSON Data Dumps
  • Audit Log
  • Miscellaneous Gotchas
  • Harvesters
  • Harvesting
  • Identifiers
  • Importing via the Command Line
  • Example Ingest
  • SKOS Ingest
  • Database Migration Changelog
  • Scripting the EHRI environment
  • Using the Web Service
  • Web Service API Documentation
  • WS API Docs

Frontend Portal Site

• EHRI Portal Front-end Technical Documentation
  • Overview of the EHRI Portal and Admin front-end
  • EHRI Portal API - Version 1 - Experimental
  • Controllers and Action Composition
  • Example Cypher usage
  • Deployment
  • Disaster Recover and General Troubleshooting
  • External HTML Pages
  • Miscellaneous Gotchas
  • Setting up the development environment
  • Miscellaneous docs / pre-emptive justification
  • Models
  • Permissions
  • Scala Notes
  • Staging Server
  • Notes on testing

System Administration

• EHRI System Administration
  • Hosting
  • File Storage

See also

• Metadata Publishing Tool (MPT) manual
• EAD Conversion Tool (ECT) manual

Miscellaneous:

• Authors