uibStudyInfo

Uses open data from the University of Bergen (UiB). Imports, stores in DB and provides API (JSON).

What is it?

This is a package of PHP-scripts used to:

• Import open data from the University of Bergen (UiB) and store it in a database.
• Give an API to fetch data, provide full-text search etc. Can be used to feed data to a web-app.

It was created for a student project, but can easily be reused for other applications using the same data sets.

Latest version

Is found on the GitHub-repository https://github.com/livarb/uibStudyInfo

Documentation

See code comments or ask the author.

Installation

1. Copy files to a webserver with PHP-capabilities and a MySQL-database.
2. Set up connect.php (see sample-connect.php)
3. Run scripts (named "fetch...") in web browser to populate database
4. Download Slim framework and place in subfolder "Slim"
5. Make sure .htaccess-file is updloaded for the Slim-framework to be able to provide you with an API.

Dependencies

"Slim PHP micro framework" for API

http://www.slimframework.com/

About the open data from UiB

See UiB's web pages about open data:

http://data.uib.no/

And provisional documentation of the datasets used:

http://hackathon.b.uib.no/data-og-idear/uibdata/

Licensing

See separate file with license.

Future improvements

Some points to improve upon later:

• Translate all code and comments to english
• Create script to run import every day (i.e. cron-job). Current script clears database table for each import.
• Give links to guides used.
• Document what each file does and all routes in the API.

Contact

Contact author at livarbe at gmail.com

For questions regarding UiBs open data, contact UiB at data@uib.no