OVERVIEW
CAOS, "Catastrophes of Southern Italy. Photogénie and Remediation of Natural Disasters", is a digital archive dedicated to the cultural and documentary representation of natural events in Southern Italy.
It collects photographs, audiovisual works, texts, web materials, and other documents, linking them to phenomena, places, historical periods, collections, and creating subjects. The system combines public consultation with a restricted area for managing data, media, and editorial content.
It also includes information about the project, research groups, and the results produced.
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They explore the relationships between events, territories, and forms of representation through documents, maps, and timelines.
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Consult research activities, participants, and available results, including links and attachments.
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They insert and update documents, media, collections, texts, stories, people, and associated organizations.
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Consultation of the multimedia archive through records containing sources, authors, dates, territories, and related content.
Text search and combinable filters for municipalities, regions, collections, creators, genres, phenomena, media, and time ranges.
Displaying results as a grid, list, or interactive map with grouping by municipality.
Exploration for floods, landslides, eruptions, earthquakes, storm surges, and winds.
Browsing of thematic and territorial collections and consultation of creators and organizations.
Publication of content on the project, research groups and results such as events, workshops, reports and attached materials.
Composition of editorial stories with text, images, documents, and maps.
Confidential management of documents and classifications, featuring file uploads, media sorting, and a rich text editor.
Importing data from spreadsheets and acquiring administrative boundaries from OpenStreetMap.
Automatic generation of previews for images, PDF documents, and book covers.
Account activation, password recovery, and protection against repeated login attempts.
COMPOSITION
The product consists of a public portal, a reserved area, and a central service that makes data and functions available to both applications. The portal presents the content and manages search, navigation, and geographic visualization interactions; the reserved area concentrates editorial input and maintenance activities.
The central service applies publication filters and rules, manages accounts and files, and accesses the geographic database.
A routing system distributes traffic among services, while a dedicated web server publishes images, attachments, and static files.
STACK
Restricted area
For managing tables, forms, validation, and content editors
Central service
With token authentication
Data
The geographical extent of the database, for editorial and territorial information; shared filesystem or S3-compatible storage for media and attachments
Execution and distribution
With automated production of application images via GitHub Actions.
