Orinoco Lite development

This repository is the development and integration workspace for Orinoco Lite. It tracks upstream Orinoco components, records architectural decisions, and coordinates development of a GitHub-native lab website workflow.

Lab websites do not build or deploy from this repository. The first implementation will live on the orinoco-lite branch of the existing centerforopenneuroscience.org repository. That branch continues the established CON history while selectively adopting useful scaffolding from upstream www-from-model.

con/www-from-model remains a clean GitHub mirror and integration reference for that upstream history.

Start here

The canonical implementation and handoff document is docs/orinoco-lite-plan.md.

The next milestone is a small, connected CON website preview built on the orinoco-lite branch of centerforopenneuroscience.org. It will combine reviewed metadata migrated from dump-research-info with selected content, assets, and visual identity preserved from the legacy website.

flowchart LR
    U["Upstream Orinoco repositories"] --> D["orinoco-lite-dev"]
    W["Upstream www-from-model"] --> M["con/www-from-model mirror"]
    M -. "selected code and fixes" .-> I["centerforopenneuroscience.org orinoco-lite branch"]
    C["Legacy CON branch, tag, content, and assets"] --> I
    R["Reviewed CON research metadata"] --> I
    I --> A["GitHub Actions build"]
    A --> P["GitHub Pages preview"]
    I --> F["Future reusable action and lab template"]

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Core constraints

• Canonical metadata is stored as human-editable YAML in Git.
• Pull requests are the review and publication boundary.
• Dump Things may run ephemerally during CI, but no persistent metadata server is required for a deployed lab website.
• Generated pages and projections are build artifacts, not canonical records.
• CON-specific content remains downstream; narrow reusable improvements may be contributed upstream.