MCP Server and Agent for CDLI
Contributor: armaanngupta
This project improves access to the CDLI database by enabling natural language queries instead of complex search forms and syntax. It allows...
Science and medicine
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI)
Curating humanity’s earliest written history
Technologies
dockerJavaJavaScriptmysqlphpPythonSCSS
Topics
assyriologycultural heritageculturedatadigitizationHistorylinguisticsnatural language processing
- Total projects
- 34
- Years participating
- 6
- Most recent
- 2026
Participation history
Historical projects
Search & Discovery Improvements
Contributor: harsh_dev
CDLI hosts over 340k cuneiform artifacts used by researchers worldwide. The current search stack runs a nightly Logstash pipeline that rebuilds the...
Revamping CDLI Mobile App (React Native)
Contributor: ShivaGupta
CDLI’s tablet applications provide access to curated cuneiform artifacts, making ancient records accessible to researchers, educators, and the public...
Scalable Email Infrastructure for CDLI Framework
Contributor: Sonika Chowdary Gutha
The CDLI framework currently sends transactional emails synchronously during web requests, coupling application performance directly to SMTP...
Seals Portal
Contributor: Aditi Singh
The seals portal aims at displaying all of the resources in the CDLI concerning a seal, aggregated in one place, with important features like viewing...
Apertium - Phrase-based MT system
Contributor: Himanshu Choudhary
The previously developed Machine Translation systems for Sumerian face sparsity issues because of their low-resource. The advanced translation...
Search Enhancements
Contributor: Ajinkya Morankar
This project mainly focuses on updating and improving the current search features. The search setup has been completed under past programs of GSOC...
Improve the credits: ownership and licencing of digital assets
Contributor: Chidiebere
The idea aims at updating how digital assets’ (artifacts) license, ownership and credits are stored, while considering how they can be displayed in a...
Towards a General-Purpose Entity-Bibliography Linking System
Contributor: Circle Chen
Currently, the bibliography data on assyriology is only linked with ancient artifact entities, but it also contains information about other entities,...
New Features and Usability Enhancement
Contributor: Shivoham Angal
This project aims at adding new features to the CDLI framework and enhancing the usability of some of the pre-existing features. The objectives of...
Design Challenge I
Contributor: UtkarshTiwari
The project aims on creating a generic view with a user-centric interface using minimal space and complexity. The project aims to : Improve the...
Transliterations editor and API
Contributor: Vishv Kakadiya
JTF is a new JSON-based format for transliterations that aims to make cuneiform textual data easily accessible for processing and modifications. It...
Design Challenge
Contributor: Somil Jain
The Project includes : Designing and Implementing the Admin dashboard. Merging Admin and public templates following the WCAG norms. Adding...
Discovery Search and Advanced Search features
Contributor: Yashraj Desai
The project mainly focuses on enhancing the search and advanced search features in the CDLI framework. The objectives of the project are : Add the...
DESIGN CHALLENGE
Contributor: Aradhana Kund
This project aims to unify the complete styling of the website using minimal space and complexity. Also, it aims to improve the designing of certain...
Journals Open Review Workflow and Integration
Contributor: Apoorva
This project focuses on the CDLI journal workflow before we submit an article. Before the submission of journals it should be accessible for an open...
3D Viewer Integration
Contributor: Mustafa Dhar
This project is to load 3D Models in PLY format from the CDLI database into the existing 3D Model Web Viewer using the Three.js library. The idea is...
Digital Library Management
Contributor: daksh
This project is about preparing a dashboard that can show an admin the visual assets of the digital library for each artifact but also add, edit,...
Bibliography management and display
Contributor: Ajit Jadhav
CDLI is moving away from its older flat database and for the occasion has designed a full model for bibliographic data management. This challenge...
Image Processing Pipeline : From RAW to Archival
Contributor: AmanSingh
This pipeline would extend the framework's capabilities to process images and convert RAW images to archival view and web view which can be further...
Translating the whole Ur III corpus
Contributor: Himanshu Choudhary
This project aims to build a full translation pipeline with the integration of NER (Named Entity Recognition) and POS (Part of Speech) tagging of...
Metadata API and Management and Display of Bibliographies
Contributor: Lars Willighagen
General points: linked-data metadata with formal schemas metadata API in three parts: base REST API, content negotiation and export links interfaces...
Visualization Pipeline for CDLI Accounting Corpora
Contributor: Logan Born
This proposal outlines a suite of tools to assist researchers working with the numeric component of CDLI accounting corpora. This includes an...
Revamp CDLI tablet apps (Apple and Android)
Contributor: Anila Hoxha
CDLI tablet app offers a curated collection of images, text, and metadata of artifacts inscribed with the cuneiform script. Artifacts from the...
Design Integration and Accessibility audit
Contributor: Samarth Sharma
The cuneiform digital library initiative has a vivid user base. Coming up with an outstanding first impression is an expectation that cannot be...
Improving CDLI Framework
Contributor: Vedant Wakalkar
CDLI Framework integrates features of the project in a logical infrastructure, prepares new data displays, including machine-readable outputs, to...
Journals Management & Display
Contributor: Nisheal John
This project focuses on the publication of various types of journals that CDLI hosts, currently CDLI hosts four journals, two peer-reviewed journals...
Multiple Layer Annotations Querying
Contributor: Sagar Sagar
Currently, there is no tool available to integrate into a website that has the capacity to query through multiple layers of linguistic annotations...
CDLI - Search Results Visualizations
Contributor: Amaan Iqbal
CDLI has rich geographical and temporal data at its disposal. Currently, this information is not fully utilized. Although the data schema is being...
TEI Export for the CDLI Corpus
Contributor: rillian
I am writing an export tool for the CDLI dataset so it can be used with the Scaife viewer. The tool will need to convert the native AFT markup used...
Neural Machine Translation for Sumerian and English
Contributor: Ravneet Punia
The project aims to build a machine translation model that can convert Sumerian (Language used around 2000 BC) to English Language using Neural...
Computer vision challenge for the cuneiform script
Contributor: Vishal Thamizharasan
The current display system used at CDLI requires that a user reads a text to absorb visual and text information simultaneously, and to interpret the...
Towards building the first Semantic Role Labeling system for Sumerian
Contributor: Bakhtiyar Syed
Semantic role labeling (SRL) is a task in Natural Language Processing which helps in detecting the semantic arguments of the predicate/s of a...
Granular Temporal Data Management
Contributor: Sameer Sengar
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI) aims to collect, maintain and make available images, text, and metadata of all artifacts inscribed...