Project Overview.

I’m Vishv Kakadiya, participating in Google Summer of Code 2021 with CDLI. I’ve been accepted for the project Transliterations editor and API, JTF is a new JSON-based format for transliterations that aims to make cuneiform textual data easily accessible for processing and modifications. It comes with a NodeJS API, jtf-lib, to provide an ATF format parser and converter, a CRUD interface and a module for sign list operations, jtf-signlist. A React web application, uqnu, is being developed to import transliterations from files, validate, edit, export etc.

The task is to integrate this infrastructure into CDLI’s framework and allow crowdsourcing and individual work on texts.

Project: GSoC’21, GitLab GSoC’21 Proposal: Link

Mentors: Ilya khait , shai gordin

GSoC Final Report and Summary.

Getting Selected as Student Developer at CDLI under Google summer of code was an absoulte pleasure. This three month learning and contributing journey was so far the best experience I have ever had. I shall always be indebted to such a welcoming organisation and my mentors for his help.

What Was Done

During these three months I have completed many the essential objectives of the project which includes

#	Objectives	Pull Requests	Status
1	uqnu integration	#314	Merged
2	Virtual directory for uqnu	#323	Merged
3	CORS enabling and Fetching ATF in uqnu from the Framework	#335	Merged
4	jtf-lib integration	#357	Merged
5	framework’s public API & JTF output function in the API	#373	Merged
6	Version Control for transliterations	-	Completed
7	SignNames routes in JTF-lib	!4248d6c	Merged

What Is Left

Storing ATF/JTF data into CDLI Database through authentication is next on my to-do list. Hence loading part has done in uqnu recently so I’ll be working on this during my post GSoC period. Apart from that adding new features in uqnu wasn’t in a project but I’ll be working on that with mentor.

Objectives and Deliverables

Key objective

–> Completed Tasks –> Ongoing Tasks

#	Status	Objectives	Associated Deliverables	PR(s)
1		Framework integration	Integrate JTF API and web application run in a framework docker container.	#604 #605
2		Accessibility	Make web application accessible via a framework URL.	#629
3		Database Operations	Storing JTF data into CDLI Database.	-
4		Version Control	Implement version control system that efficiently stores changes to transliterations.	-
5		JTF-LIB Integration	JTF API integration with the framework’s public API & JTF output function in the API.	!357

Additional Objectives

#	Status	Objectives	Associated Deliverables	issue(s)
1		CDLI Crowdsourcing functions	Users should add / modify transliterations data and send them for approval directly from the application.	-

Tentative timeline

Week	Objectives	Deliverables
1	Implement Docker Conatiner for uqnu	Makes the web app up and running inside a container.
2	Integrate web app in framework	Enable service that communicates between newly added and already existed containers.
3	Database operations for JTF-data	Make routes(Endpoint) and controllers in CDLI backend to communicate with the service and Store JTF data in the Database along with the author and timestamp
4	Version Control	Integrating the git actions which can eventually enable version control.
5	Storing and Retriving JTF-data	Implementing the mechanism for the system that stores the data when changes occur to transliterations.
6	Tests and Fallback Plan	Manually test the work has been done so far and write a few unit tests for this and tests for services which have been made so far and Trying a different approach if the git server won’t work as I have planned.
7	Integrate version control in framework	Integrating Version control System with the CDLI interface.
8	Communication between web app and API	Implement a Service which can communicate to both the docker container.
9	Data Accessibility	Working on a Controller to store JTF data and make it accessible.
10	Document, test add further features addons	Prepare the whole Documentation of the work I have done so far. Start working on bonus tasks, if time permits. and Create a service layer in the framework that can get requests and enable admins to approve the request. So modification of transliterations data can be done.