Hellforge

Helpfully labeled layers (for geneticists)

This repository contains the code to the Webapp/Database that I use to collect archaeological context for the samples of my ancient sedimentary DNA research projects. (And for other sites as well, when I read up on them...)

The database is centered around the concept of archaeological layers and the research of ancient humans and mammals

Because of that it currently stores information about:

(Published) Archaeological Context

• Site location and stratigraphy
• Associated human cultures
• Associated epochs
• Dates obtained from the layers or samples
• Associated mammalian taxa
• Geological properties (WIP)

(Published) Sediment DNA projects

• Project descriptions
• Samples and Libraries obtained from the layer
• DNA Results (mtDNA)

Explore

The webapp is currently available at https://hellforge.merlin-szymanski.de

Build

Requirements

• conda

Start

Assuming, that you have a copy of the hellforge database (named db.sqlite3) sitting in the root of the folder structure

To run this webapp locally, install and activate the environment:

conda env create -f env.yml
conda activate hellforge

Then create a .env file in the root of the repository, make sure to include the following secrets:

SECRET_KEY="RANDOM-STRING-HERE"
DEBUG=True
HOST="localhost 127.0.0.1"

Then run the django server!

python3 manage.py runserver

And in your browser navigate to localhost:8000