grima - whispering into alma's ear with APIs
This project is maintained by zemkat
If you use Windows at work, or Mac OS anywhere, and you can install software on your computer, than you can run grima on your own computer.
Grima requires a web-server, but Docker Desktop (and for MacOS) run a web-server on its own private internet inside your computer.
If your IT people aren’t comfortable having you install docker on your computer, then you can use the public grima while you ask them to install an institutional copy of the grima server.
You’ll need an Alma API Key to use grima, though you can see some of what it can do at the grima sandbox or by looking over some of Kathryn’s presentations.
Once you install Docker, installing grima is pretty easy. It is a short file (you can read it yourself) that downloads the latest copy of the grima web-server, stops any currently running grima web-server, and starts the new-one.
If you use Windows, use grima-desktop.bat (or direct github link). Save the file, then open it. Click ok on the “Don’t run untrusted software.”
XXX: Screenshots
For Mac OS, use grima-desktop.sh (or direct github link).
XXX: Can you just double click it? Is it worth make an applescript app?