openPDS - Personal Data Store / Server

The personal data store component of openPDS handles storage of raw personal data, provides endpoints for writing such data via connectors, a computation engine to perform analysis on the raw data, as well as storage and REST endpoints for results of such analysis (answers to questions, in openPDS lingo).

Please note: openPDS requires a separate registry server for account management and to act as an OAuth 2.0 provider. This can be found at https://github.com/HumanDynamics/openPDS-RegistryServer. If you run your own registry server, the domain for your registry server must be provided to the openPDS setup script.

Contributors: The dev branch is for ongoing development. Please submit pull requests to this brach.

Getting started with openPDS

(You must have python pip, virtualenv, and mongodb server installed on your machine)

# install python and database dependencies
apt-get install python pip
apt-get install python-virtualenv
apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
apt-get install mongodb mongodb-server
apt-get install python-dev libpq-dev

service mongodb start

Creating a python virtual environment for openPDS

You must clone the repo into the virtualenv directory for setup.py to work:

# create the virtual environment
virtualenv pdsEnv
cd pdsEnv
source bin/activate

# get the latest openPDS code
git clone https://github.com/HumanDynamics/openPDS.git
cd openPDS

# install openPDS and its requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

# set up and run your local openPDS
python start.py
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8002 (for access to local VM)

The above steps will start openPDS with default configuration settings on port 8002 of the loopback interface (local access only) on your machine. The openPDS setup script generates a wsgi file that can be used to run openPDS with other web server software, such as Apache.