Presentation of ARIADNE Portal att Laravel Meetup

1. ARIADNE Portal
Creating a research portal for European archaeologists

2. About us
• Started 2014 (very small scale)
• More than 20 years accumulated experience working with
solutions for making research data searchable
• More than 20 years accumulated experience working with
Drupal
• Developed 2 portals using Laravel (one with elasticsearch)

3. About SND
• National research infrastructure
• Facilitates access to Swedish research data
• Training and support for Swedish researchers
• Development of tools and resources

4. Case: ARIADNE
• EU funded infrastructure project
• 4 year project
• 24 project partners, 16 countries
• Total budget 6 million Euro
• Common standards and imperoperability
• Common policies and strategies
• Tools for data processing, data mining and natural language processing
• Training of researchers
• Common portal for European archaeological research data and grey literature

5. Challenges
• No common infrastructure
• No common standards
• Very varying level of technological expertise
• Political challenges
• Communication and coordination challenges

6. Technical workflow
Data
+
Metadata
Data
+
Metadata
Data
+
Metadata
Excel Files
OAI-PMH
XML
Aggregation
Infrastructure
Portal
Infrastructure
Validation Enrichment Publication
Thesauri
Mappings
Temporal
Mappings
ACDM ACDM Enriched

7. Elastic Stack

8. elasticsearch
• Json document based
• Built in replication for multiple nodes (if needed)
• Uses lucene index
• Handles many specialized fieldtypes eg. dates, numbers,
geoshapes etc
• REST based API
• Official clients in Java, Groovy, python, .net, Perl, Ruby and
PHP

9. Demo
http://ariadne-portal.dcu.gr

10. Indexing a doucment
Inserting a new document is easy

11. Indexing a doucment
Inserting a new document is easy
Id
Type
Index

12. Search for a document
Inserting a new document is easy
Id
Type
Index

13. Mappings
• Mappings not needed, elastic will ”guess” the field type ad
create a mapping
• Mappings are need for creating filters and buckets

14. Some Examples
• Live demo!

15. Laravel and elasticsearch
• Composer library: https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-php
• Sourcecode for the ariadne laravel portal:
https://github.com/dainst/ariadne-portal