GlossaryΒΆ
- Service
- Anything that provides an external functionality not included directly in Memex Explorer. Current examples include particular applications such as DDT, Tika, Kibana, and Elasticsearch.
- Stack
- A particular set of Services in a working configuration. This term is not used frequently in the documentation.
- Instance
- A version of Memex Explorer running on a given host as well as its associated stack and databases. An instance may have multiple projects.
- Project
- An in-Memex Explorer data and application warehouse. Each project usually shares its application stack with other projects.
- Domain Challenge
- A problem set like human trafficking, MRS, ebola.
- Skin
- A particular UI (Text, CSS, etc...) on a particular webpage for a domain challenge
- Celery
- A task manager implemented in Python which manages several tasks in Memex Explorer, including the crawlers.
- Redis
- A key-value store database which used by Celery to keep information about task history and task queues.
- Django
- A python web application framework. Django is the core of the Memex Explorer application.
- Crawl Space
- Provides service for crawling the web using Nutch or Ache.
- Task Manager
- Manages the application tasks, like running crawls. Task manager is not available from the Memex Explorer GUI interface.