https://github.com/toastdriven/sciencemuseum

Nat + Simon's entry for the Science Museum's API competition
https://github.com/toastdriven/sciencemuseum

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Nat + Simon's entry for the Science Museum's API competition

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/toastdriven/sciencemuseum
• Owner: toastdriven
• Created: 2009-12-01T07:38:10.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2009-12-02T02:24:59.000Z (over 16 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-07-13T09:56:53.744Z (10 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://cosmos.natimon.com/
• Size: 232 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.txt

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README

          
http://cosmos.natimon.com/

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An entry for the Science Museum's Cosmic Collections API competition, by 

Natalie Downe and Simon Willison.

http://cosmiccollections.pbworks.com/

http://natbat.net/

http://simonwillison.net/

Read more about the project in about.txt.

Running the project locally

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Pre-requisites: Python, setuptools, pip and virtualenv

http://www.python.org/

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pip

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

Check out the code from GitHub.

$ cd sciencemuseum/sciexplore/

Create a virtualenv to install the dependencies:

$ virtualenv ve

Use pip to install the dependencies in to the virtualenv:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt -E ve

Run syncdb to create the database tables:

$ python manage.py syncdb

(You can answer "no" when asked if you want to create an admin account)

Next, import the data:

$ python manage.py import_xml http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objectapi/cosmosculturepublic.svc/MuseumObjects

Now build the search index:

$ python manage.py rebuild_index

Finally, start up the development web server:

$ python manage.py runserver 8000

And load it in your browser:

http://localhost:8000/