DINA-Web Collections API

The DINA-Web Collections API is an essential part of DINA-Web - "Digital Natural History Collections for the Web". It provides data services for museum collection management workflows.

Overview

The Collections API is made up of three Java modules:

• dina-data-service - exposes the Collections API through a RESTful service
• dina-data-jpa - CRUD operations visavi the relational database
• dina-datamodel - data model of entities from database schema

Usage

Use the Makefile for building, generating documentation etc:

# build using official mvn from Docker Hub
make build

# generate docs
make dox

Documentation

The Collections API reference documentation is here:

• Collections API reference

Guides, tutorials and usage examples:

• curl example
• ... more to follow