mistydemeo/binder

Binder: digital repository for museum collections

Binder

Binder is an open source digital repository management application, designed to meet the needs and complex digital preservation requirements of museum collections. Binder was created by Artefactual Systems and the Museum of Modern Art.

Binder aims to facilitate digital collections care, management, and preservation for time-based media and born-digital artworks and is built from integrating functionality of the Archivematica and AtoM projects.

A presentation on Binder's functionality (Binder was formerly known as the DRMC during development) can be found here:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPebm5nh83o.

Slides from a presentation at Code4LibBC 2014, including screenshots from the application, can be found here:

• http://www.slideshare.net/accesstomemory/introducing-the-drmc

Further resources

• Binder documentation
• Binder User Forum

Table of contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Contributing
• Community
• Versioning
• Creators
• Copyright and licenses

Installation

IMPORTANT

At this time, Binder is not ready for use in a production environment, and still requires further developement for the code to function in a development environment.

We have added further notes about the current status of the project to our documentation, here:

• http://binder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/user-manual/overview/project-status.html

We have created some installation instructions using Vagrant, so that developers can work with the code. Note that this will not lead to a functioning installation at present - but we hope that community developers might help us tackle some of the isues outlined by our developers as part of the installation notes. See them here:

• https://gist.github.com/sevein/e0b1d036721435add3cd

Configuration

We will be adding configuration notes to the project documentation soon. In the meantime, if you need to configure Archivematica's storage service so that Binder can interface with it, make sure to define the following environment variables, depending on your installation (the following values are just examples):

env[ARCHIVEMATICA_SS_HOST] = "127.0.0.1"
env[ARCHIVEMATICA_SS_PORT] = "8000"
env[ARCHIVEMATICA_SS_PIPELINE_UUID] = "6117c5fa-d63f-44d8-9920-89468c68683e"

Project documentation:

• http://binder.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Contributing

Please read through our contributing guidelines. Included are directions for opening issues, coding standards, and notes on development.

Editor preferences are available in the editor config for easy use in common text editors. Read more and download plugins at http://editorconfig.org.

Binder was built on Access to Memory (AtoM) which is an application built using the Symfony framework.

See http://symfony-project.com for additional instructions on installing and
configuring a Symfony application.

Community

Keep track of development and community news.

• Binder documentation
• Binder User Forum
• Follow @accesstomemory on Twitter.
• Chat with us in IRC. On the OFTC network, in the #openarchives channel.

Versioning

For transparency into our release cycle and in striving to maintain backward compatibility, Binder is maintained under the Semantic Versioning guidelines.

Sometimes we screw up, but we'll adhere to those rules whenever possible.

Creators

• Artefactual Systems Inc
• MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright Artefactual Systems Inc. Code released under the AGPLv3 license. Docs released under Creative Commons.