Platform: Docker & OLIP (Bibliotec)

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OLIP is a docker based platform from Biblioteques sans Frontiers connected to the Off-Line-Internet consortium.

See also:

• olip/dweb-mirror repo
• How to unblock a stuck download: olip-dashboard#28
• How to update an app: olip-deploy#2
• Implementing search OLIP - Opensearch implementation #301
  • Extending Search API for offline/online: oli-api@19
• USB drive usage olip#20
• Environment variable to known when running under OLIP olip-deploy#3 and olip-api#21
• End of olip/dweb-mirror/MR1 re adding docker entrypoint
• Question of handling Wifi v Lan use cases see below.....
• Merges (3 actually) to edit repo - https://gitlab.com/bibliosansfrontieres/olip/olip-deploy/merge_requests/14
• Database crash reported at ...olip-dashboard#29
• DM not installing - olip-deploy#4

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Platform specific issues.

Being Docker its only going to be appropriate for bigger machines, i.e. I'd hate to be running two apps simultaneousy on a Raspberry Pi!

They are using a pretty hard version lock, Florian sounded like this might be fixable as otherwise OLIP installs will always be sub-par (i.e. with bugs fixed in the npm distro).

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Status

• Can install from dockerfile - need to be able to update
• Search partly done (does remote, not local, no indication of if downloaded)
• maybe needs authentication (Dev - below)
• Open concerns - see below

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Concerns with OLIP that need addressing at summit

• Efficiency running in Docker
• Difficulty of debugging in Docker
• Distribution thru IPFS: They dropped it (reliability, bandwidth)
• Compatibility with running as a server on a WiFi where it is not wifi point - especially why the app cant redirect to the incoming host rather than fixed name
• Access to external drives, and other apps. (e..g if ran mediawiki)

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Need Info

• Usage
  • How to add an application (e.g. from their gallery) to an existing install
  • How to update an app - asked on https://gitlab.com/bibliosansfrontieres/olip/olip-deploy/issues/2
• Development
  • How to do PV's or caches

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Development

• Test DM on it - need to know how to install
  • Port handling ?
• Authentication API
• Search API (see OLIP - Opensearch implementation #301 )
• Backporting these functions to IIAB
• Think about persistent dweb-mirror.config.yaml
• Check email chain for any extant issues.

Future

• Content packages, are these relevant to IA and how to integrate with their configuration

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Links from Gregoire:

• implementation of a search api in js using json: this is what BSF has built for its own Olip app (it is called hugo-mediacenter): https://gitlab.com/bibliosansfrontieres/olip/hugo-mediacenter. You can have a look at the API folder, I think you'll find some useful chunk of code
• Specifiation about Olip internal search and authentification system: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bWLrUtpUtAuHTd_7phSZnH4b08Dn1bHAaB_K2Ge8_hI/edit#heading=h.14mpx6a8znb7

• If you want to test Olip and why not integrate your app inside the ecosystem,
  • the doc explaining how to install Olip on raspberry pi: https://gitlab.com/bibliosansfrontieres/olip/olip-deploy/blob/master/README.md
  • the doc explaining how to integrate a new app in Olip: https://gitlab.com/bibliosansfrontieres/olip/olip-deploy/blob/master/app-developer.rst

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WiFi and DNS weirdness

Olip has a somewhat odd configuration in terms of its use of absolute names, or presumed IP addresses, which fail depending on network configuration.

I'm going to try and find some use cases ... but this seems to be a problem ....

• olip-deploy MR#11 changed things, left all below broken ....
• Both on ethernet - api.olip.local fails olip-deploy#6