diff --git a/ldvspec/__init__.py b/ldvspec/__init__.py
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diff --git a/ldvspec/ldvspec/__init__.py b/ldvspec/ldvspec/__init__.py
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diff --git a/ldvspec/ldvspec/asgi.py b/ldvspec/ldvspec/asgi.py
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+++ b/ldvspec/ldvspec/asgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+"""
+ASGI config for ldvspec project.
+
+It exposes the ASGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
+
+For more information on this file, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/howto/deployment/asgi/
+"""
+
+import os
+
+from django.core.asgi import get_asgi_application
+
+os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'ldvspec.settings')
+
+application = get_asgi_application()
diff --git a/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/__init__.py b/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/__init__.py
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diff --git a/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/base.py b/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/base.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f24ba27ab887470a24c7db922f447bfb7f81d450
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+++ b/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/base.py
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+"""
+Django settings for ldvspec project.
+
+Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 4.0.6.
+
+For more information on this file, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/settings/
+
+For the full list of settings and their values, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/
+"""
+
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# Build paths inside the project like this: BASE_DIR / 'subdir'.
+BASE_DIR = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+
+
+# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
+# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/howto/deployment/checklist/
+
+# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
+SECRET_KEY = 'django-insecure-2x)iay_r&tj0_d8+z0+kl7ii2oz#048sh^ebfo(q#wmimxob!_'
+
+# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
+DEBUG = True
+
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
+
+
+# Application definition
+
+INSTALLED_APPS = [
+    'lofardata',
+    'django.contrib.admin',
+    'django.contrib.auth',
+    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
+    'django.contrib.sessions',
+    'django.contrib.messages',
+    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
+    'rest_framework',
+    'rest_framework.authtoken',
+    'corsheaders',
+    'django_filters',
+    'django_extensions',
+]
+
+MIDDLEWARE = [
+    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
+    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
+    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
+]
+
+ROOT_URLCONF = 'ldvspec.urls'
+
+TEMPLATES = [
+    {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
+        'DIRS': [],
+        'APP_DIRS': True,
+        'OPTIONS': {
+            'context_processors': [
+                'django.template.context_processors.debug',
+                'django.template.context_processors.request',
+                'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
+                'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
+            ],
+        },
+    },
+]
+
+WSGI_APPLICATION = 'ldvspec.wsgi.application'
+
+
+# Password validation
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
+
+AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
+    },
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
+    },
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
+    },
+    {
+        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
+    },
+]
+
+
+# Internationalization
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/i18n/
+
+LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
+
+TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
+
+USE_I18N = True
+
+USE_TZ = True
+
+
+# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/howto/static-files/
+
+STATIC_URL = 'static/'
+
+# Default primary key field type
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/ref/settings/#default-auto-field
+
+DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'
diff --git a/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/dev.py b/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/dev.py
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+++ b/ldvspec/ldvspec/settings/dev.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+from ldvspec.settings.base import *
+
+# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
+DEV = True
+DEBUG = True
+
+ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]
+CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True
+
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+         'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql_psycopg2',
+         'USER': 'atdb_admin',
+         'PASSWORD': 'atdb123',
+         'NAME': 'ldv-spec-db',
+         'HOST': 'localhost',
+         'PORT': '5432',
+    },
+}
+
+# Password validation
+# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
+
+AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = []
diff --git a/ldvspec/ldvspec/urls.py b/ldvspec/ldvspec/urls.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..50e17ceaf8ab1d38a69ab4f16f7f466dfb605471
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+++ b/ldvspec/ldvspec/urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+"""ldvspec URL Configuration
+
+The `urlpatterns` list routes URLs to views. For more information please see:
+    https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/topics/http/urls/
+Examples:
+Function views
+    1. Add an import:  from my_app import views
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('', views.home, name='home')
+Class-based views
+    1. Add an import:  from other_app.views import Home
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('', Home.as_view(), name='home')
+Including another URLconf
+    1. Import the include() function: from django.urls import include, path
+    2. Add a URL to urlpatterns:  path('blog/', include('blog.urls'))
+"""
+from django.contrib import admin
+from django.urls import include, path
+
+urlpatterns = [
+    path('ldvspec/', include('lofardata.urls')),
+    path('ldvspec/admin/', admin.site.urls),
+    path('ldvspec/api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls')),
+]
diff --git a/ldvspec/ldvspec/wsgi.py b/ldvspec/ldvspec/wsgi.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e7f6e4facdf56ef581782639ea2601c47a0b4cbe
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+++ b/ldvspec/ldvspec/wsgi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+"""
+WSGI config for ldvspec project.
+
+It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
+
+For more information on this file, see
+https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.0/howto/deployment/wsgi/
+"""
+
+import os
+
+from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
+
+os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'ldvspec.settings')
+
+application = get_wsgi_application()
diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/__init__.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/__init__.py
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diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/admin.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/admin.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..8c38f3f3dad51e4585f3984282c2a4bec5349c1e
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+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/admin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.contrib import admin
+
+# Register your models here.
diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/apps.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/apps.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5b2482b0c974eca1de2d9e29db732e8b7f4ce50c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/apps.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from django.apps import AppConfig
+
+
+class LofardataConfig(AppConfig):
+    default_auto_field = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField'
+    name = 'lofardata'
diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/migrations/0001_initial.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/migrations/0001_initial.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..2dfafde3f52298c19c88ce3c77ce475e3c5a5f2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/migrations/0001_initial.py
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# Generated by Django 3.1.4 on 2022-07-11 13:51
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    initial = True
+
+    dependencies = [
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.CreateModel(
+            name='LofarData',
+            fields=[
+                ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
+                ('sas_id', models.CharField(blank=True, max_length=15, null=True, verbose_name='SAS_ID')),
+            ],
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/migrations/__init__.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/migrations/__init__.py
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diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/models.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/models.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cece29fd462734113c3584f41e2366894fca4edd
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+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/models.py
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+from django.db import models
+
+class LofarData(models.Model):
+    sas_id = models.CharField(verbose_name="SAS_ID",max_length=15, blank=True, null=True)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.sas_id
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diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/serializers.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/serializers.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..aaf9229c414b1b20f901be87a5d9fa53618cd7a9
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+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/serializers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+from rest_framework import serializers
+from .models import LofarData
+
+class LofarDataSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):
+
+    class Meta:
+        model = LofarData
+        fields = "__all__"
diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/tests.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/tests.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..7ce503c2dd97ba78597f6ff6e4393132753573f6
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+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.test import TestCase
+
+# Create your tests here.
diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/urls.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/urls.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..18cc447999c251adb9b22d80b883f67e78491699
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+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/urls.py
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+from django.urls import include, path
+from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
+from rest_framework.authtoken import views as rest_auth_views
+
+from . import views
+
+urlpatterns = [
+
+    # authentication
+    path('accounts/', include('django.contrib.auth.urls')),
+
+    # specialization of the above, with more control
+    path('login/', auth_views.LoginView.as_view(template_name='registration/login.html')),
+
+    # REST API
+    path('lofardata/', views.LofarDataView.as_view(), name='lofardata'),
+]
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diff --git a/ldvspec/lofardata/views.py b/ldvspec/lofardata/views.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..0c72b35a2c10394efab069ef74e8572205e2b801
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldvspec/lofardata/views.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+
+from django.http import HttpResponse
+
+from rest_framework import generics, pagination
+from rest_framework.views import APIView
+
+import django_filters
+from django_filters import rest_framework as filters
+
+from .models import LofarData
+from .serializers import LofarDataSerializer
+
+# --- Filters ---
+class LofarDataFilter(filters.FilterSet):
+    class Meta:
+        model = LofarData
+
+        fields = {
+            'sas_id': ['exact', 'icontains'],
+        }
+
+# --- GUI ---
+
+def index(request):
+    return HttpResponse("Welcome to LDV-specification.")
+
+
+# --- REST API views ---
+
+class LofarDataView(generics.ListCreateAPIView):
+    """
+    A pagination list of tasks, unsorted.
+    """
+    model = LofarData
+    serializer_class = LofarDataSerializer
+
+    queryset = LofarData.objects.all().order_by('sas_id')
+
+    # using the Django Filter Backend - https://django-filter.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
+    filter_backends = (filters.DjangoFilterBackend,)
+    filter_class = LofarDataFilter
diff --git a/ldvspec/manage.py b/ldvspec/manage.py
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..110f50eed9bb0655751f09aeaca46b10b0507598
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldvspec/manage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Django's command-line utility for administrative tasks."""
+import os
+import sys
+
+
+def main():
+    """Run administrative tasks."""
+    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', 'ldvspec.settings')
+    try:
+        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
+    except ImportError as exc:
+        raise ImportError(
+            "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
+            "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
+            "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
+        ) from exc
+    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()
diff --git a/ldvspec/requirements/base.txt b/ldvspec/requirements/base.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ca98ca30be922a485eed90d2192e2edd9a155d1c
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+++ b/ldvspec/requirements/base.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+asgiref==3.5.2
+Django==3.1.4
+sqlparse==0.4.2
+tzdata==2022.1
+
+djangorestframework==3.12.2
+django-filter==2.3.0
+psycopg2-binary==2.9.3
+django-cors-headers==3.6.0
+django-extensions==3.1.0
+django-bootstrap-pagination==1.7.0
+pytz==2022.1
+whitenoise==5.0.1
+six==1.15.0
+fontawesome-free==5.15.2
diff --git a/ldvspec/requirements/dev.txt b/ldvspec/requirements/dev.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a3e81b8dcf5c42c11a685e429d9e22bca56c471b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldvspec/requirements/dev.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+-r base.txt
diff --git a/ldvspec/requirements/prod.txt b/ldvspec/requirements/prod.txt
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index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4979310ee089926391000bfac2e67433dd7593e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ldvspec/requirements/prod.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+-r base.txt
+gunicorn==19.9.0