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# Curator
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2024-10-28 15:33:16 -07:00
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[1]: https://gitlab.com/Zander671/art-museum
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A program to manage the collections for [Art Museum][1].
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Curator is the program used to manage collections on the [Art Museum][1]
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website. It is a Java program that you run locally on your computer. It allows
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you to upload, edit, and delete the media and albums that appear on the
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website.
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Curator exists as a separate program that your run locally to keep the website
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as light as possible. Things such as image, video, and audio metadata
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processing, thumbnail generation, and file type conversion are handled locally,
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sparing the server hosting Art Museum from having to have any such helper
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programs installed.
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Curator uses FTP or SFTP to upload media to the web server. The FTP user needs
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to have write access to the data directory used for [Art Museum][1] in order to
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successfully upload media.
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Curator has a build in help system. Just click the question mark (`?`) button in
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any dialog and the built-in help system will open to the page most relavant to
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what you are trying to do.
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### Building
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Curator uses Gradle as a build system. Thus, building is done with
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`gradle build`. Any required dependencies will be automatically downloaded and
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compiled by Gradle. Generating video thumbnails and converting Apple `.mov`
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files requires the `ffmpeg` command line utility.
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Curator has been tested on Linux, FreeBSD, and MacOS. A `.desktop` file (for
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Linux, FreeBSD, etc.) and a script to build a MacOS `.app` file is available
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under the `scripts` directory. Note that installing ffmpeg with Homebrew on
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MacOS does **NOT** automatically add it to the `launchd` `$PATH` environment
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variable. Thus, the `.app` file will not be able to find it unless you manually
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add it.
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