2020-09-19 (v2.0)
This document is a step-by-step guide showing how to create and compile a simple gallery and get familiar with ldgallery.
It mainly describes how to structure the source gallery directory accepted by the ldgallery compiler.
[source gallery directory with items and their tags]
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| ldgallery compiler
v
[generated web gallery with embedded web viewer]
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| copy
v
[web server]
A new gallery can be initialised by creating a directory containing a gallery configuration file named gallery.yaml.
./monument-gallery-source
└── gallery.yaml ----------- gallery settings file
gallery.yaml holds the settings of the gallery. Its content can be as follows:
# gallery.yaml: ldgallery example gallery configuration file.
# See ldgallery(1) for a list of available configuration keys.
galleryTile: Monuments of the World
tagCategories:
- city
A new item, say a picture file named “DSC0001.jpg”, can now be added to the directory created at the previous step.
Optionally, some metadata such as a title and some tags can be associated by creating a file named “DSC0001.jpg.yaml” at the same location.
./monument-gallery-source
├── gallery.yaml ----------- gallery settings file
├── DSC0001.jpg ------------ a picture
└── DSC0001.jpg.yaml ------- its associated optional sidecar metadata file
The sidecar metadata file “DSC0001.jpg.yaml” can have the following content:
# DSC0001.jpg.yaml: ldgallery metadata sidecar file for DSC0001.jpg.
# See ldgallery(1) for a list of available keys.
title: The Eiffel Tower
tags:
- city:Paris
- tower
The gallery can now be compiled by running the following command in a terminal with the right path to the gallery directory created during the previous steps:
ldgallery \
--with-viewer \
--input-dir ./monument-gallery-source \
--output-dir ./monument-gallery-output
If the compiler was installed manually through the extraction of a pre-built archive, it might be necessary to specify the full path of the installation:
<installation path>/ldgallery \
--with-viewer=<installation path>/viewer \
--input-dir ./monument-gallery-source \
--output-dir ./monument-gallery-output
Running the command above produces a directory named “monument-gallery-output” in the current directory, which contains the compiled gallery and a web viewer ready to be copied to some web server.
The target web host doesn’t need to run any additional software besides a web server correctly configured to serve flat static files.
Some standard version-control software such as Git or Mercurial can easily be used to keep track of the evolutions of the gallery directory, thanks to the text-based format used for the sidecar metadata files.
The gallery can quickly be deployed by using a command such as rsync
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The compilation and upload commands can be combined in a Makefile or made part of a script for faster and more convenient deployments. Such scripted procedure can then further be automated through Continuous Integration hooks.
Related manual pages: ldgallery(1), ldgallery-viewer(7).
The ldgallery source code is available on https://ldgallery.pacien.org.
Copyright (C) 2019-2020 Pacien TRAN-GIRARD and Guillaume FOUET.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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