bbeshel / rerum

Open and free repository for linked open data.

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reconditorium eximium rerum universalium mutabiliumque

RERUM is a product of the Center for Digital Humanities at Saint Louis University and is (currently) completely funded and maintained by the fine folks on their retirement plan. This site is meant to be used by developers and programmers who need a good place to put some data and prefer that it be a public place that is not too expensive.

Our goal is to provide a simple, out-of-the box connection that reduces concerns and costs about data storage and management while making interoperability, standards compliance, and attribution automatic.

Originally conceived as a "IIIF Store" (iiif.io), RERUM is designed to act as an open node for annotation and references that need to be made in an interoperable world of scholarly assertions.

This project is not only access to the existing instance, created by the Center for Digital Humanities and hosted by Saint Louis University, but also the complete cut list for making your own. However useful this may be for private projects, applications in development, or because of funding requirements, we hope that your machine enjoys talking to others and releases its gnats of knowledge into the Interwebs.

RERUM Install Information
To use your own instance RERUM, here are a few things to know:

• RERUM is written in Java.
• RERUM supports Java 1.6 and above.
• RERUM uses MongoDB as its database.
• RERUM uses HTTP protocol to do CRUD operations from the client.
• RERUM doesn't support cross domain AJAX call, so the call must be initialized from a registered server.
• HTTP requests must be open on port 80.