Sleipnir

Sleipnir is a Xigt database interface that provides both a Python API to various database backends as well as a REST API for web frontends.

Actions

• Requesting data
  • List corpora
  • Get a corpus summary
  • Get a corpus
  • List IGTs for a corpus
  • Get an IGT
• Adding new data
  • Add a corpus
  • Add an IGT to a corpus
• Assigning or replacing data
  • Assign or replace an IGT
• Partial updates
  • Update a corpus
  • Update an IGT
• Deleting data
  • Delete a corpus
  • Delete an IGT

Installation and Requirements

Sleipnir is a Python 2.7 or 3.3+ application that runs on a WSGI server. It has the following dependencies:

• Flask
• Xigt

Configuration

The config.py module can be edited to configure Sleipnir. Configuration options include:

• DATABASE - type of database used (default: filesystem)
• DATABASE_PATH - location of database file or directory (default: db/)