Digital Frontiers Documentation Overview

This repository contains comprehensive documentation and resources for the Digital Frontiers platform.

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📚 Content Guide

• General video (covers manager and users)

  • A comprehensive video tutorial about the Digital Frontiers platform is available on LLDC's Drive.

• Platform manager

  • Admin responsibilities & approval process

• Platform design

  • Conceptual diagram
  • Database
  • Personas
  • Architecture
  • Wireframes
  • Tech stack
  • Code structure
  • Deployment notes
  • Backlog (next version)
    • Next version: Garnet & Wisdom layer
  • BOM (Bill of Materials)
  • Feedbacks and Presentations

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📁 docs/ Folder Structure

• Conceptual diagram

  • conceptual-diagram-v2.jpg
    
  • conceptual-diagram.drawio
    Editable source for conceptual diagrams.
  • v2-versioning-plan/
    Contains versioning plans and related diagrams.

• Database

  • ER-Diagram-v6.png
    Entity-relationship diagram for the platform database.

• Personas

  • personas/
    User personas and user journey documentation.

• Architecture

  • libraries-arch.drawio
    Editable diagram file showing the libraries and architecture used in the project.

• Wireframes

  • wireframes/
    UI/UX wireframes and design assets.

• Tech stack

  • tech-stack/
    Details and diagrams about the technology stack used.
  • tech-stack-v3.jpg
    

• Code structure

  • See docs/code-structure.md for the detailed code structure documentation.

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🎥 General Video

A comprehensive video tutorial about the Digital Frontiers platform is available on LLDC's Drive. The tutorial covers:

• Platform introduction and explanation of all features.
• How-to-use guides for both normal users and admins.
• Overview of admin responsibilities.
• User-oriented scenarios, including:
  • Demonstration of a normal user creating showcases and datasets.
  • How admins approve requests, with practical notes.
• Platform settings, user management, and statistics in the admin dashboard.

Please refer to the LLDC Drive for access to the video.

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📄 Other Documentation

• Permission Matrix:
  See PermissionMatrix.md for a detailed breakdown of user roles and access rights.

• Admin Responsibilities & Approval Process:
  See admin-responsibilities.md for a comprehensive guide to admin tasks, approvals, and management features.

• Personas & User Journeys:
  The personas/ folder contains documents describing typical users and their interactions with the platform.

• Wireframes & UI Design:
  Explore wireframes/ for early-stage UI/UX designs.

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📦 Bill of Materials (BOM)

For a full list of dependencies and build/runtime requirements, see:

• Dockerfiles
• Backend package.json
• Frontend package.json

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📢 Feedbacks and Presentations

Feedbacks and presentations are available in the shared Drive folder.

• Feedbacks: Collected from the "Here and There" workshop at UCL, which had strong user engagement and valuable insights.
• Presentations: All major presentations and slides are also included in the Drive.

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For more details on the codebase and how to contribute, see the src/README.md and src/frontend/README.md.

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