Plan out and migrate the Liber Usualis to Cantus Ultimus
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 16
- Forks
- 4
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- 2d 16h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 3
Description
## Goal
Migrate the 1961 Solesmes *Liber Usualis* (2318 pages, MEI 5.0+Neumes, OMR'd) onto the production Cantus Ultimus instance, so it's publicly searchable by OMR/pitch-melody, the same way other manuscripts are.
## Status
A full local deployment has already proven the core functionality works end-to-end against this corpus: manuscript record, folio-to-image mapping, IIIF image serving via Cantaloupe, full-corpus indexing (~2 million OMR n-grams across all 2318 pages), and working neume/pitch search, verified in the browser against real indexed data.
Doing that local deployment also surfaced and fixed several real bugs in the current Cantus Ultimus codebase along the way -- see #981 (fix PR), #979 (main bug: MEIParser silently dropping every staff but the first on multi-staff pages -- 67% of this corpus's pages have 2+ staves), and #980 (a related, not-yet-fully-resolved UI bug, non-blocking for this migration).
See the comment below for a detailed verification summary.
## Remaining work
This issue tracks what's left to take this from "proven locally" to "live in production." See linked sub-issues for the breakdown.
Contributor guide
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Research direction
Read the linked sub-issues and the verification summary comment first; use the proven local deployment as the baseline. Check the manuscript record, folio-to-image mapping, Cantaloupe IIIF serving, corpus indexing, and neume/pitch search in production. Done means all 2318 pages are publicly searchable by OMR and pitch-melody.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- data-engineering, devops, search
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100