The personal data store component of openPDS handles storage of raw personal data, provides endpoints for writing such data via connectors, a computation engine to perform analysis on the raw data, as well as storage and REST endpoints for results of such analysis (answers to questions, in openPDS lingo).

Please note: openPDS requires a separate registry server for account management and to act as an OAuth 2.0 provider. This can be found at http://github.com/HumanDynamics-RegistryServer. If you run your own registry server, your openPDS installation settings.py must be updated to point to your registry server.

• To get started with openPDS, you must have python pip, virtualenv, and mongodb server installed on your machine:

  apt-get install python pip

  apt-get install python-virtualenv

  apt-get install mongodb mongodb-server

  service mongodb start

• From there, you can create a virtual environment for your openPDS install, and clone the code into it:

  virtualenv pdsEnv

  cd pdsEnv

  git clone git@github.com:HumanDynamics/OMS-PDS.git

  source bin/activate

  pip install -r conf/requirements.txt

  python manage.py syncdb

  python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8002 (for access to local VM)

• The above steps will start openPDS with default configuration settings on port 8002 of the loopback interface (local access only) on your machine.