Story Explorer

Exploring Nonlinear Narratives in Movie Scripts using Story Curves

Contact: Nam Wook Kim [email protected]

Install

• Requirement: MongoDB, Node, Python 2.7

1. Restore Movie Data

mongorestore --username [username] --password [password] --authenticationDatabase admin --drop mongodb_dump/

2. Run Preferably, the following command is run using virtualenvwrapper.

> pip install -r requirements.txt

The server accesses the restored database. Thus, you need to put your db authentication info in backend/data/dbauth.txt in which id and passward is separated by a comma (e.g., storyid,storypw).

> npm install
> npm start

Folder Structure

1. Server.

   backend/server.py

2. Data & Data Processing Scripts

   backend/data/

   2.1 Crawling and parsing scripts

   backend/data/extract-scripts.py

   2.2. Extracting semantic metadata

   backend/data/metadata.py

3. UI

   frontend/src

   3.1. Story Explorer

   frontend/src/modules/vis/

   3.2. Script tagging and Displaying semantic metadata frontend/src/modules/prep