Creating a Site
Signing up and logging in
Log in with a Google account from "Log in / Sign up" at the top right of the landing page. Your account is created automatically on first login, and from then on you create and manage sites from the dashboard.
The dashboard
After logging in, the dashboard is split into pages by function.
| Tab | Role |
|---|---|
| Overview | Check usage; change your account display name and URL slug |
| Sites | Create, configure and delete sites (databases) |
| News | Edit announcements shown on your site |
| Vocabularies | Manage RDF vocabularies that assist metadata entry |
| API keys | Issue and revoke keys for programmatic access (see Developers) |
When you invite a collaborator (from a site's settings), that member can only edit that site's news from the dashboard — they cannot touch your account settings or API keys.
Creating a site (database)
In ArchiveBase the unit of publication is called a database. One account can hold multiple databases, and each is published as an independent site — a digital library with its own top page, search and footer.
- Create one from "Databases" in the dashboard
- Set a slug (the short identifier used in URLs) and a title
- The site is served at
/{account}/dl/{database}
Example URL
Database letters under account example-account is published at https://archivebase.ldas.jp/example-account/dl/letters.
A newly created site is private. The usual flow is to add contents (items) and then publish. See Items and Collections for registering materials and Publishing and Appearance for visibility and looks.
Usage and plans
Currently only the free plan is offered (500 MB storage / 1 database / 100 MB per upload / 10,000 resources). Exceeding a limit returns an error on upload or creation (402 for storage/count overflow, 413 for single-file size).
Work in progress
Screenshots of each dashboard page, slug naming rules, and the collaborator (member invitation) flow are yet to be documented.