Looking forward: Openverse in 2024

The OpenverseOpenverse Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media, including images and audio. Find Openverse on GitHub and at https://openverse.org. maintainers have completed our planning for 2024! Below is the list of projects we plan on tackling, roughly ordered by priority. The full list can also be seen on our project tracker on GitHub. Each of the projects falls into one of the following themes:

• Improve Search Relevancy
• Refine Search Experience
• Make Openverse Safer to Use & Maintain
• Broaden our Data
• Progress Service & Code Resiliency
• Engage the Community

Projects for 2024

• Additional search views for the frontend
• Sensitive content report moderation workflow
• ECS Alarms for anomalous behavior
• Search relevancy sandbox
• Nuxt 3 migration
• Data normalization
• Clearly document all media properties
• Move Openverse API and catalog to openverse.org subdomains
• Incorporate Rekognition data into the catalog
• Dark mode
• Audit and refine the API documentation
• Catalog Database Migration Plan
• Proxy frontend API requests through Nuxt
• Relevancy Experimentation Framework
• Solicit ongoing feedback from Openverse.org users
• Dead link data incorporation
• External API for sensitive content detection
• Masking sensitive words in Sentry
• Expand Content Providers Metadata
• Modal integration
• Additional related options
• Use analytics to develop first-party popularity metrics
• Multiple sort bases/sort by “newest”
• Move Openverse Slack reaction bot to Openverse infrastructure

Want to get involved? Check out our GitHub repository for ways to engage!

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