Project: Design and Implement External Search

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Overview

• Design and implement support for external tools to perform searches on Dataverse content and return relevant results. Possible use cases include using AI to generate results
• Service would essentially be a black box to Dataverse, similar to other external tools
• Service would be registered with an installation and available as an alternative search option

Tasks

• [ ] Tech hours discussion to revisit and revise the existing design
• [ ] Create set of technical issues related to investigating and implementing this design

Related

• https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse-pm/issues/308
• https://help.hmdc.harvard.edu/Ticket/Display.html?id=371806

Resources

• Proposal: Tech Hours - External Search Tool Discussion

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Status: July 2024

• Work will begin on this task in August 2024
• Note: work will begin later in the year; it did not start in August.

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Status: September 2024

• No updates this month

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Status: November 2024

• Upcoming: Tech Hours discussion on 2024/11/12 to discuss and revise design