unillett/lumieres repository overview

⁠Lumières Lausanne

Lumières Lausanne is a Django application for publishing and editing scholarly data about the Swiss Enlightenment: bibliographic records, biographies, transcriptions, projects, news, media, and search.

This public repository contains the application source, development containers, tests, and user/developer documentation. Internal operational documentation, environment inventories, incident reports, deployment runbooks, and project handoff notes are maintained outside the public repository.

⁠Local development

Requirements:

• Docker Desktop 4.x+ or Docker Engine with Compose V2;
• Git.

git clone https://github.com/unil-lettres/lumieres-lausanne-2025.git
cd lumieres-lausanne-2025
cp .env.template .env
docker compose up -d
docker compose ps

The local application is available at http://localhost:8000/ by default.

⁠Tests and documentation

docker compose exec -T app pytest
mkdocs serve

Public documentation lives under docs/⁠.

⁠License and contact

Copyright University of Lausanne.

Lumières Lausanne is free software distributed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 or later. For project questions, open a GitHub issue.