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Introduction

This web document is a tutorial draft to manage Sauri rock-art data on Amazon Web Service (AWS). Our purpose is to build an information system, online, interactive, to share and promote Sauri rock-art. To have more information on Sauri rock-art archaeology, see this other web document.

This document is stored on a public repository on GitHub: https://github.com/zoometh/Sauri

Amazon Web Service

The choice of Amazon Web Service (AWS) is an important part of the future information system. It offers a really good quality report compared to other similar services (Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Computing, or institutional servers). For example, AWS allows to install R, RStudio Server and Shiny Server which will allow us to create interactive forms (maps, enriched photographs, scatter plots, etc.).

This AWS account is maintained by: Thomas Huet

AWS Sauri Login

Go on AWS website and choose ‘Sign In to the Console’. Then, choose ‘Sign in as IAM user’. The Sauri account ID is 238927671855, the IAM user name is sauri-pallars. You will also have to write your password1.

You only have the possibility to access the S3 buckets2. Click on the S3 icon

Within the S3 buckets, choose sauri-pallars S3 bucket

Once connected, you must have this credential in the upper right of your computer window:

AWS Sauri structure

The S3 sauri-pallars folder/file structure is

sauri.pallars roques/ R1/
R2/
…
gis/ roques.shp
zonas.shp
…

roques/

The S3 ‘roques’ stores all the documentation of specific rocks (photo, drawings, etc.) ordered by rock:

roques/ R1/ _IGP7852.JPG
_IGP7854.JPG
_IGP7855.JPG
…
R2/

sig/

The S3 ‘gis’ stores all the spatial documentation (shapefiles, georeferenced maps, etc.)

sig/ roques.shp
zones.shp
seclas.shp
dem.tif
…

AWS Sauri navigation

On the top left of your computer window, you can see the arborescence of the sauri-pallars. Go to the parent directory by clicking on the name (ex: roques/)

AWS Sauri actions

You can compute various action on the sauri-pallars S3 bucket:

  • upload new files

  • delete files

  • download files

  • etc.

These actions, and further more, are authorized by the root user3, contact him/her to extend your permissions

Task planning

The achieved task, the current task and the future task are listed below

  • AWS
    • AWS account
    • AWS data storage
  • R, RStudio Server, Shiny Server
    • Install/Connect R
    • Install/Connect RStudio Server
    • Install/Connect Shiny Server

Issues

Actually, there’s an error when we try to connect to Shiny Server

  1. this password has been sent to you↩︎

  2. Amazon Simple Storage Service or Amazon S3 bucket are similar to folders↩︎

  3. Thomas Huet: ↩︎