Digital Garden

A public notebook / digital garden for King's College London's digital humanities department.

Based on Hypha's digital garden for The Bentway's Digital and/as Public Space Micro-residency.

Adding and connecting notes

• Notes in the Digital Garden are stored in the ./_notes folder as markdown files (*.md) files.
• Connecting notes is done through a double-bracket notation: [[text to link]]. View the The Statement of Intent note as an example.
• A link without a corresponding markdown file will be highlighted and left unlinked until a file is created.

Technologies used

• Jekyll, a static website generator written in Ruby
  • Initial template is based on the Digital garden Jekyll template by Maxime Vaillancourt
• Tachyons, a functional CSS library that allows us to quickly grow the garden
• D3.js, a JavaScript library for visualizing data
  • Initial knowledge graph implementation from the Digital garden Jekyll template
• Jekyll Feed plugin, a plugin for Jekyll to generate an RSS feed
• Jekyll serve by Brett Fisher

Development

Using docker

docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up

Using jekyll

1. Clone repository: git clone ssh://git@git.autonomic.zone:2222/autonomic-cooperative/kcl-digital-humanities-garden.git
2. Install ruby's command line tools with your package manager (e.g. brew install ruby)
3. Install Bundler gem: gem install bundler
4. Install dependencies: bundle install
5. Run locally: bundle exec jekyll serve or rake watch
6. Visit your localhost on port 4000: http://localhost:4000 or http://127.0.0.1:4000

License

Digital Garden content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

All code at github.com/hyphacoop/digitalgarden/ is licensed under a GNU General Public License v3.0, the text of which is included in the repository here.

Local docker