Project Overview

Hi, I’m Harsh Chandwani, participating in Google Summer of Code 2026 with CDLI. I’ve been accepted for the project Search & Discovery Improvements.

CDLI (Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative) hosts over 340,000 cuneiform artifacts, and search is how most people actually use it. Today that search has three gaps: indexing runs only once nightly (a Logstash full-rebuild of Elasticsearch), so an approved edit can take up to 24 hours to appear; only artifacts go through the search engine, while publications, collections, proveniences, and periods fall back to plain database LIKE queries; and Elasticsearch’s license conflicts with CDLI’s open-source model.

This project fixes all three. It moves to event-driven incremental indexing (Transactional Outbox) so approved edits appear in seconds, migrates the backend to OpenSearch (Apache 2.0) with a PHP document builder replacing the Logstash Ruby transform, and extends full search to publications, collections, proveniences, and periods.

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Student	Harsh Chandwani
Mentors	Émilie Pagé-Perron, Vedant Wakalkar
Proposal	Search & Discovery Improvements
GSoC Project	GSoC’26
Project Idea	Ideas List #4.2
Contributions	Merge Requests
Repository	cdli/framework