# Chouette

Chouette is a Ruby/Rails & Java project to manage transport offer data. It is designed as an [SaaS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service) platform and can :
* Exchange transport data
 * [Neptune](http://www.normes-donnees-tc.org/format-dechange/donnees-theoriques/neptune/),
 * [GTFS](https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference?hl=fr),
 * [NeTEx](http://www.normes-donnees-tc.org/format-dechange/donnees-theoriques/netex/)
* Create and edit transport data with a collaborative team workflow
* Be requested via a read-only [Restful API](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer)
* [Import, Export and Validate transport data asynchronously](http://github.com/afimb/chouette)
* Use a [multi-tenancy database](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitenancy)

Chouette Core
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Chouette Core is the developer version of Chouette open source project. Use this projet to fork and maintain your own Chouette project.

**Chouette Core is under construction**, contact [af83 Choutte team](mailto:chouette-dev@af83.com) if you have any question.

Requirements
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* [Import, Export and Validation Operations](https://github.com/af83/chouette-core-iev) are in the Java part of the project

More Information
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Some technical articles are available [on the wiki](../../wiki) too.

License
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This project is licensed under the CeCILL-B license, a copy of which can be found in the [LICENSE](./LICENSE.md) file.

Support
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Contact [af83 Choutte team](mailto:chouette-dev@af83.com) to know how to contribute to the Chouette project