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+Discovery Interface for University of Alberta Libraries
+=======================================================
+
+This is the code base for the University of Alberta Libraries's
+discovery platform. Based on [Project
+Blacklight](projectblacklight.org), it uses Ansible for configuration
+management, Solr for the search index, Nginx as a proxy server, and
+Unicorn as the web server.
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-== README
-
-This README would normally document whatever steps are necessary to get the
-application up and running.
-
-Things you may want to cover:
-
-* Ruby version
-
-* System dependencies
-
-* Configuration
-
-* Database creation
-
-* Database initialization
-
-* How to run the test suite
-
-* Services (job queues, cache servers, search engines, etc.)
-
-* Deployment instructions
-
-* ...
-
-
-Please feel free to use a different markup language if you do not plan to run
-<tt>rake doc:app</tt>.