added semi static acknowledgement page, fixes #359

app/controllers/static_pages_controller.rb

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+class StaticPagesController < ApplicationController
+  def acknowledgements
+    @content = YAML.load_file(Rails.root.join('config/static/acknowledgements.yml'))
+  end
+end

app/helpers/static_pages_helper.rb

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+module StaticPagesHelper
+end

app/views/static_pages/acknowledgements.html.erb

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+<%= content_for :title, @content['title'] %>
+
+<% if @content['splash'].present? %>
+  <% content_for :page_styles %>
+  <style>
+    .article-hero {
+      height: 20rem;
+      background: none !important;
+    }
+
+    .article-hero:before {
+      content: "";
+      display: block;
+      position: absolute;
+      height: 20rem;
+      width: 100%;
+      z-index: -1;
+      background-image: url('<%= asset_path(@content['splash']) %>');
+      background-size: cover;
+      background-position: center center;
+    }
+  </style>
+<% end %>
+
+<header class="bg-light article-hero d-flex flex-column justify-content-end position-relative">
+  <div class="container my-3">
+    <% if @content['splash'].present? %>
+      <h1 class="display-3 text-light" style="text-shadow: var(--bs-dark) 0 0 1rem;"><%=@content['title'] %></h1>
+    <% else %>
+      <h1 class="display-3 text-primary"><%= @content['title'] %></h1>
+    <% end %>
+  </div>
+</header>
+
+<div class="container my-5 ">
+  <% @content['sections'].each do |section| %>
+    <h2><%= section['heading'] %></h2>
+    <% if section['content'] %>
+      <p><%= Kramdown::Document.new(section['content']).to_html.html_safe %></p>
+    <% end %>
+	<% if section['items'] %>
+      <ul>
+        <% section['items'].each do |item| %>
+          <% if item.is_a?(String) %>
+            <li><%= item %></li>
+          <% elsif item.is_a?(Hash) %>
+            <li>
+              <a href="<%= item['link'] %>"><%= item['name'] %></a>
+              <% if item['description'] %> - <%= item['description'] %><% end %>
+            </li>
+          <% end %>
+        <% end %>
+      </ul>
+    <% end %>
+  <% end %>
+</div>
+
+<footer class="bg-light">
+  <div class="container my-5 text-muted small">
+      <p>Cover photo: Cover photo: Phil Aicken / Unsplash</p>
+      <p>Last updated Last updated 2024-12-16 15:46:17 UTC.</p>
+  </div>
+</footer>

config/routes.rb

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 Rails.application.routes.draw do
+  get 'about/acknowledgements', to: 'static_pages#acknowledgements'
   use_doorkeeper
 
   # Static pages

config/static/acknowledgements.yml

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+# config/static/xronos.yml
+title: "Acknowledgements"
+splash: 'acknowledgement_hero.jpg'
+sections:
+  - heading: "Current XRONOS"
+    content: |
+      XRONOS is currently maintained by Martin Hinz and Joe Roe at the Institute of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bern, supported by the [Swiss National Science Foundation](https://www.snf.ch/en) ([SNSF Project #198152](https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/198153)).
+
+  - heading: "Former Project Team Members"
+    items:
+      - "Caroline Heitz (2019)"
+      - "Clemens Schmid (2019)"
+      - "Setareh Ebrahimiabareghi (2022)"
+
+  - heading: "Collaborators"
+    items:
+      - name: "Beat Eberschweiler"
+        link: "https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/hbd/de/index/ueber_das_departement/organisation/gremium/denkmalpflegekommission/beat_eberschweiler.html"
+        description: "cantonal archaeologist (director), Baudirektion, Amt für Raumentwicklung, Kanton Zürich"
+      - name: "Sönke Szidat"
+        link: "https://www.14c.unibe.ch/about_us/team/lara_team/prof_dr_szidat_soenke/index_eng.html"
+        description: "Head of research group, LARA, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern"
+      - name: "Tomasz J. Chmielewski"
+        description: "independent scholar, Wrocław, Poland (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic)"
+
+  - heading: "Contributing Datasets"
+    content: "XRONOS is continuously updated with data from a number of existing databases, including:"
+    items:
+      - name: "14SEA"
+        link: "http://www.14sea.org/"
+        description: "maintained by Agathe Reingruber and Laurens Thissen"
+      - name: "ADRAC"
+        link: "https://github.com/dirkseidensticker/aDRAC"
+        description: "maintained by Dirk Seidensticker, Wannes Hubau and Katharina V. M. Jungnickel"
+      - name: "AIDA"
+        link: "https://github.com/apalmisano82/AIDA"
+        description: "maintained by Alessio Palmisano, Andrew Bevan, Alex Kabelindde, Neil Roberts & Stephen Shennan"
+      - name: "BDA"
+        link: "https://bda.huma-num.fr"
+        description: "maintained by Thomas Perrin"
+      - name: "CalPal"
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7215741"
+        description: "maintained by Bernhard Weninger"
+      - name: "caribbean-14C"
+        link: "https://github.com/philriris/caribbean-14C"
+        description: "maintained by Phil Riris"
+      - name: "CONTEXT"
+        link: "http://context-database.uni-koeln.de/"
+        description: "maintained by U. Böhner & D. Schyle"
+      - name: "EUBAR"
+        link: "https://telearchaeology.org/eubar-c14-database/"
+        description: "maintained by Gacomo Capuzzo"
+      - name: "IRDD"
+        link: "https://sites.google.com/site/chapplearchaeology/irish-radiocarbon-dendrochronological-dates/download"
+        description: "maintained by Robert M. Chapple"
+      - name: "MedAfriCarbon"
+        link: "https://theia.arch.cam.ac.uk/MedAfriCarbon/"
+        description: "maintained by Giulio Lucarini"
+      - name: "MesoRAD"
+        link: "https://www.mesorad.com/"
+        description: "maintained by Julie Hoggarth and Claire Ebert"
+      - name: "NERD"
+        link: "https://github.com/apalmisano82/NERD"
+        description: "maintained by Alessio Palmisano, Andrew Bevan, Dan Lawrence and Stephen Shennan"
+      - name: "p3k14c"
+        link: "https://www.p3k14c.org/"
+        description: "maintained by the PEOPLE3000 Working Group"
+      - name: "RADON"
+        link: "https://radon.ufg.uni-kiel.de/"
+        description: "maintained by Martin Hinz & Christoph Rinne"
+      - name: "rxpand"
+        link: "https://github.com/jgregoriods/rxpand"
+        description: "maintained by Jonas Gregorio de Souza"
+      - name: "Southern African Radiocarbon Database"
+        link: "https://github.com/emmaloftus/Southern-African-Radiocarbon-Database"
+        description: "maintained by Emma Loftus"
+
+  - heading: "Published Compilations"
+    items:
+      - name: "Böhner, U. and Schyle, D., 2004."
+        link: "https://web.archive.org/web/20161224034255/http://context-database.uni-koeln.de/"
+        description: "Radiocarbon CONTEXT database."
+      - name: "Capuzzo, G., Boaretto, E., and Barceló, J. A., 2014."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.2458/56.17453"
+        description: "EUBAR: A database of 14C measurements for the European Bronze Age. A Bayesian analysis of 14C-dated archaeological contexts from Northern Italy and Southern France. *Radiocarbon* 56(2): 851-69."
+      - name: "Courtney Mustaphi, Colin, 2016."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/NJLNRJ"
+        description: "Radiocarbon dates from eastern Africa in the CARD2.0 format. *Harvard Dataverse*."
+      - name: "Crema, E.R., Kobayashi, K., 2020."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105136"
+        description: "A multi-proxy inference of Jōmon population dynamics using bayesian phase models, residential data, and summed probability distribution of 14C dates. *Journal of Archaeological Science* 117: 105136."
+      - name: "D'Errico, F., Banks, W. E., Vanharen, M., Laroulandie, V., and Langlais, M., 2011."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.4207/PA.2011.ART40"
+        description: "PACEA Geo-Referenced Radiocarbon Database. *PaleoAnthropology* 2011: 1–12."
+      - name: "Katsianis, M., Bevan, A., Styliaras, G., and Maniatis, Y., 2020."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.65"
+        description: "An Aegean history and archaeology written through radiocarbon dates. *Journal of Open Archaeology Data* 8: 5."
+      - name: "Manning, K., Colledge, S., Crema, E., Shennan, S. and Timpson, A., 2016."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.40"
+        description: "The Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe. EUROEVOL Dataset 1: Sites, Phases and Radiocarbon Data. *Journal of Open Archaeology Data* 5: 2."
+      - name: "Martínez-Grau, H., Morell-Rovira, B., and Antolín, F., 2021."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.72"
+        description: "Radiocarbon Dates Associated to Neolithic Contexts (Ca. 5900 – 2000 Cal BC) from the Northwestern Mediterranean Arch to the High Rhine Area. *Journal of Open Archaeology Data* 9: 1."
+      - name: "Palmisano, A., Bevan, A., and Shennan, S., 2018."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.43"
+        description: "Regional Demographic Trends and Settlement Patterns in Central Italy: Archaeological Sites and Radiocarbon Dates. *Journal of Open Archaeology Data* 6: 2."
+      - name: "Williams, A. and Ulm, S., 2014."
+        link: "https://doi.org/10.5284/1027216"
+        description: "AustArch: A Database of 14C and Luminescence Ages from Archaeological Sites in Australia. *Archaeology Data Service*."
+
+  - heading: "Graphics and Photos"
+    items:
+      - name: "Book"
+        link: "https://thenounproject.com/icon/book-5433144/"
+        description: "by HDM"
+      - name: "006 Carbon C"
+        link: "https://thenounproject.com/icon/006-carbon-c-1022338/"
+        description: "by Joel Wisneski"
+      - name: "Pottery"
+        link: "https://thenounproject.com/icon/pottery-3969143/"
+        description: "by Adrien Coquet"
+      - name: "Ruin"
+        link: "https://thenounproject.com/icon/ruin-568421/"
+        description: "by João Archer"
+      - name: "Wood Texture"
+        link: "https://thenounproject.com/icon/wood-texture-3674579/"
+        description: "by Laura"
+
+  - heading: "Additional Data and Services"
+    content: "Geocoding via [Nominatim](https://nominatim.org/). Data ⓒ [OpenStreetMap contributors](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright)."

spec/helpers/static_pages_helper_spec.rb

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+require 'rails_helper'
+
+# Specs in this file have access to a helper object that includes
+# the StaticPagesHelper. For example:
+#
+# describe StaticPagesHelper do
+#   describe "string concat" do
+#     it "concats two strings with spaces" do
+#       expect(helper.concat_strings("this","that")).to eq("this that")
+#     end
+#   end
+# end
+RSpec.describe StaticPagesHelper, type: :helper do
+  pending "add some examples to (or delete) #{__FILE__}"
+end

spec/requests/static_pages_spec.rb

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+require 'rails_helper'
+
+RSpec.describe "StaticPages", type: :request do
+  describe "GET /acknowledgements" do
+    it "returns http success" do
+      get "/static_pages/acknowledgements"
+      expect(response).to have_http_status(:success)
+    end
+  end
+
+end

spec/views/static_pages/acknowledgements.html.erb_spec.rb

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+require 'rails_helper'
+
+RSpec.describe "static_pages/acknowledgements.html.erb", type: :view do
+  pending "add some examples to (or delete) #{__FILE__}"
+end