NatureBank

Version 1.0 (2015-10-01)

NatureBank is a database for managing data on biotopes and landscapes as well as species of the flora and fauna. It can be accessed through a web application powered by Django.

The database provided with this repository is empty, containing only indicative data of lookup tables mostly in Greek language (/db/naturebank.dump).

Requirements

Python v.2.7
PostreSQL v.9.0
PostGIS v.2.1

Additional requirements related with Django and its applications are documented in file requirements.txt. NatureBank has been successfully tested with PostreSQL v.9.0, spatially enabled with PostGIS v.2.1. Other versions of the above software or other spatially enabled databases may work as well.

Installation

The following steps are needed to manually install NatureBank. For an automated approach using Ansible visit the naturebank-ansible repository

Install Python, PostreSQL and PostGIS

Install Django and dependencies

Create a database user

Create a spatially enabled database

createdb naturebank -U postgres -W -h localhost -O filotis -T template_postgis

Populate the database

pg_restore -i -h localhost -U postgres -d naturebank -v <path>/db/<dump file>

Use dump file /db/naturebank.dump to install the database with empty tables filled only with some indicative data. After that load the fixture for the django flatpages:

python manage.py loaddata naturebank_flatpages.json

Create the configuration file

Copy file /naturebank_project/settings/local-example.py to /naturebank_project/settings/local.py making the appropriate adjustments.

Configure your web server

License

NatureBank is a database for managing data on  biotopes and
landscapes as well as species of the flora and fauna.
Copyright (C) 2005-2015 National Technical University of Athens

NatureBank is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the
License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public
License along with this program. If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

NatureBank is a reengineered, generalized version of Filotis, which is Copyright (C) 2005-2015 National Technical University of Athens. Filotis is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

All additional 3rd party software provided with this release and/or used by NatureBank are AGPLv3 compatible as their licenses ensure the freedoms to run, study, share (copy), and modify the software. Additionally, some of them are copylefted.

Acknowledgements

NatureBank is based on Filotis, a database for the natural environment of Greece, developed between 2005-2015 by the National Technical University of Athens. Main authors of Filotis are Anthony Christophides and Stefanos Kozanis. Theodore Kargas was the main author of the initial version of Filotis. Authors of NatureBank are Antonis Christophides, George Karavokiros and Antonis Koukouvinos.

Related Sites

The following sites and documents are related with the NatureBank project:

Description	Link
NatureBank, a database for managing data on biotopes and landscapes as well as species of the flora and fauna.	naturebank
User guide for NatureBank (in Greek)	User Guide
naturebank-filotis, a customization of NatureBank, which modifies the Django templates for the Filotis website hosting a database for the Greek nature.	naturebank-filotis
An Ansible role that installs NatureBank on a server.	naturebank-ansible
The database for the Natural Environment of Greece FILOTIS has been checked for compatibility with the CC-by-SA license, and WMS/WFS services have been established	filotis

aptiko / naturebank