Lumen

The Lumen database collects and analyzes legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials, helping Internet users to know their rights and understand the law. This data enables us to study the prevalence of legal threats and let Internet users see the source of content removals. Lumen is a Ruby on Rails web application and API running on a Postgres database. The front end uses HTML, Javascript and SCSS. Coders will have the opportunity to add features and fix bugs using test driven development with RSpec. Some of the potential projects include updating the application to the latest version of Rails, helping us find ways to more efficiently scale the amount of data we can intake, and writing adapters to help us import data from new sources. Other features may involve customizing and improving our Rails Admin interface to make administrative tasks easier for Lumen project staff.