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... catalog all the things!
+This repository contains source code for 'fatcat', an editable catalog of
+published written works (mostly journal articles), with a focus on tracking
+the location and status of full-text copies to ensure "perpetual access".
+
The [RFC](./fatcat-rfc.md) is the original design document, and the best place
to start for background. There is a work-in-progress "guide" at
<https://guide.fatcat.wiki>; the canonical public location of this repository
is <https://github.com/internetarchive/fatcat>.
-There are four main components:
-
-- backend API server and database
-- elasticsearch index
-- API client libraries and bots (eg, ingesters)
-- front-end web interface (built on API and library)
+There are three main components:
-The API server was prototyped in python. "Real" implementation started in
-golang, but shifted to Rust, and is work-in-progress. The beginings of a client
-library, web interface, and data ingesters exist in python. Elasticsearch index
-is currently just a Crossref metadata dump and doesn't match entities in the
-database/API (but is useful for paper lookups).
+- backend API server and database (in Rust)
+- API client libraries and bots (in Python)
+- front-end web interface (in Python; built on API and library)
See the LICENSE file for details permissions and licensing of both python and
rust code. In short, the auto-generated client libraries are permissively
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## Status
-- HTTP API
- - [x] base32 encoding of UUID identifiers
- - [x] inverse many-to-many helpers (files-by-release, release-by-creator)
-- SQL Schema
+- SQL and HTTP API schemas
- [x] Basic entities
- [x] one-to-many and many-to-many entities
- [x] JSON(B) "extra" metadata fields
- [x] full rev1 schema for all entities
- [ ] editgroup review: comments? actions?
+ - [ ] file sets and web captures
+- HTTP API Server
+ - [x] base32 encoding of UUID identifiers
+ - [x] inverse many-to-many helpers (files-by-release, release-by-creator)
+ - [ ] Authentication (eg, accounts, OAuth2, JWT)
+ - [ ] Authorization (aka, roles)
- Web Interface
- [x] Migrate Python codebase
- [ ] Creation and editing of all entities
- Other
+ - [x] Elasticsearch schema
- [x] Basic logging
- [x] Swagger-UI
+ - [x] Bulk metadata exports
- [ ] Sentry (error reporting)
- [ ] Metrics
- - [ ] Authentication (eg, accounts, OAuth2, JWT)
- - [ ] Authorization (aka, roles)
- - [ ] bot vs. editor
## Identifiers