The Atlas of Living Australia, in collaboration with the Australian Museum, developed DigiVol to harness the power of online volunteers (also known as crowdsourcing) to digitise biodiversity data that is locked up in biodiversity collections, field notebooks and survey sheets.

The ansible inventories are currently out of date. You can run DigiVol manually by using gradle to build:

./gradlew assemble
java -jar build/libs/volunteer-portal-*.war
open http://devt.ala.org.au:8080/

To run up a vagrant instance of DigiVol you can use the volunteer_portal_instance ansible playbook from the AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-install repository. This will deploy a pre-compiled version from the ALA Maven repository.

NOTE: Both vagrant and ansible must be installed first.

Then setup the VM and run the playbook:

git clone https://github.com/AtlasOfLivingAustralia/ala-install.git
cd ala-install/vagrant/ubuntu-trusty
vagrant up
cd ../../ansible
ansible-playbook -i inventories/vagrant --user vagrant --private-key ~/.vagrant.d/insecure_private_key --sudo volunteer-portal.yml

Deploying to a server can be done similarly, though you will need to define an ansible inventory first.

DigiVol is a Grails v5.3 based web application. It requires PostgreSQL v15 for data storage. Development follows the git flow workflow.

For git flow operations you may like to use the git-flow command line tools. Either install Atlassian SourceTree which bundles its own version or install them via:

# OS X
brew install git-flow
# Ubuntu
apt-get install git-flow