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+APIS
+====
+
+The `Austrian Prosophographic Information System` is a
+[Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) based prosopography framework. It
+allows to create web applications to manage entities and relations between
+entities. It provides API access to the data in various formats and creates
+swagger defintions. A swagger-ui allows for comfortable access to the data.
+
+Data can also be imported from remote resources described in
+[RDF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Description_Framework).
+
+In addition to this configurable import of data via RDF, there is also an
+configurable serialization of data. The generic RestAPI of APIS provides data
+either in the internal JSON format, TEI or RDF (serialized with `CIDOC CRM`_). 
+
+APIS comes with a built in system of autocompletes that allows researchers to
+import meta-data of entities with just a single click. Out of the box APIS
+supports Stanbol_ as a backend for the autocompletes, but the system is rather
+easy to adapt to any Restfull API. APIS also supports the parsing of RDFs_
+describing entities into an entity. The parsing is configured in a settings
+file.
+
+*Entities*
+
+*Relations*
+
+Licensing
+---------
+
+All code unless otherwise noted is licensed under the terms of the MIT License
+(MIT). Please refer to the file LICENSE in the root directory of this
+repository.
+
+All documentation and images unless otherwise noted are licensed under the
+terms of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To
+view a copy of this license, visit
+http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
+
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+Create a project using your favourite package manager:
+
+```shell
+poetry new foobar --name apis_ontology
+```
+
+Currently (as of 2023-10) the name of the apis application **has** to be
+`apis_ontology` - this is considered a bug and is tracked in [this bug
+report](https://github.com/acdh-oeaw/apis-core-rdf/issues/100).
+
+In your project folder, add apis as a dependency:
+
+```shell
+poetry add git+https://github.com/acdh-oeaw/apis-core-rdf#v0.6.1
+```
+
+Setup your Django project
+```shell
+rm -rf apis_ontology
+poetry run django-admin startproject apis_ontology .
+```
+
+Now start using your Django project
+```shell
+poetry run ./manage.py runserver
+```
+
+To use the APIS framework in your application, add the following APIS modules to your Django settings module:
+
+```python
+"apis_ontology",
+"apis_core.core",
+"apis_core.apis_entities",
+"apis_core.apis_metainfo",
+"apis_core.apis_relations",
+"apis_core.apis_vocabularies",
+"apis_core.apis_labels",
+
+```
+
+### Dependencies
+
+```shell
+poetry add git+https://github.com/acdh-oeaw/apis-override-select2js#v0.1.0
+```
+
+`apis_override_select2js` is a workaround for APIS' handling of autocomplete forms. You will need it
+if you want to use autocomplete. Add it to your `INSTALLED_APPS`
+
+```python
+"apis_override_select2js"
+```
+
+
+You will also need the following dependencies:
+```shell
+poetry add django-crispy-forms django-filter django-tables2 django-autocomplete-light django-rest-framework drf-spectacular
+```
+Add them to the `INSTALLED_APPS`:
+
+```python
+# ui stuff
+"crispy_forms",
+"django_filters",
+"django_tables2",
+"dal",
+"dal_select2",
+
+# api
+"rest_framework",
+"rest_framework.authtoken",
+
+# for swagger ui generation
+"drf_spectacular",
+
+```
+
+Now you should be ready to roll. Start creating your entities in you `apis_ontology/models.py`.