ICIJ/datashare
A self‑hosted search engine for documents
Is ICIJ/datashare beginner-friendly?
In the last 30 days, ICIJ/datashare merged 15 of 17 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 2 days. 4 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 773
- Forks
- 73
- Open beginner issues
- 4
- Indexed issues
- 123
- Avg merge
- 2d 6h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 38
- Dominant language
- Java
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Last GitHub push
- Oct 30, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 20, 2026
- Contributing guide
- No contributing guide
- Code of conduct
- No code of conduct
- Beginner labels
- No beginner labels indexed
How to contribute to ICIJ/datashare
- There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
- The project ships a dev container: open it in Codespaces to get a working environment in your browser.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's AGPL-3.0 license.
- Pick one of the 4 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 73/100
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100
ICIJ/datashare#2425 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100
ICIJ/datashare#2420 · 1 comment ·
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ICIJ/datashare#2418 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100
ICIJ/datashare#2414 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·
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design: as a user, I find 'more like this' documentsMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 47 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign stale
ICIJ/datashare#2396 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[asr] feature(datashare-extension-asr) : integrate permissionsMay be free again @mvanzalu claimed this 55 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
ICIJ/datashare#2385 · 1 assignee ·
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bug: contain a main-index deletion failure in the project delete cascadeMay be free again @pirhoo claimed this 61 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
ICIJ/datashare#2373 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
ICIJ/datashare#2370 · 2 comments ·
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Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100
ICIJ/datashare#2339 · 1 comment ·
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refactor: artifact housekeeping (DatashareVersion, taskInput helper, tika-bom)May be free again @pirhoo claimed this 92 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openback java refactor stale
ICIJ/datashare#2305 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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feat: bound a document's parse time in the ARTIFACT stageMay be free again @pirhoo claimed this 92 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openback feat java stale
ICIJ/datashare#2304 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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refactor: the datashare version in taskInput re-extracts every corpus on every releaseMay be free again @pirhoo claimed this 92 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openback java refactor stale
ICIJ/datashare#2303 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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perf: --artifacts structure alone re-walks the root once per embedded documentMay be free again @pirhoo claimed this 92 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openback java stale
ICIJ/datashare#2301 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
ICIJ/datashare#2270 · 2 comments ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
ICIJ/datashare#2221 · 1 comment ·
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[structure extraction] design: as an editor, I am incentivized to extract structure before translating documentsMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2217 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[structure extraction] design: as a user, I see a " Structure extraction" entry in tasks and its pageMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2216 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[structure extraction] design: as an editor, I run structure preserving extraction in batchMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2215 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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design: as a user, I see and run document tasks in a new tabMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2214 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[structure extraction] design: as an editor, after indexation, I run structure preserving extractionMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2213 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[structure extraction] design: as a user, in document view, I switch from raw to structuredMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2212 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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[structure extraction] design: as an editor, while adding documents, I can add structureMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 136 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2211 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
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epic: import structured entities from tabular data using a data schemaMay be free again @pirhoo claimed this 137 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openback
ICIJ/datashare#2194 · 7 comments · 1 assignee ·
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design: as an admin, I run translationsMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 145 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
ICIJ/datashare#2179 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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discussion: tasks results and metadataMay be free again @mvanzalu claimed this 166 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
ICIJ/datashare#2149 · 5 comments · 4 assignees ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
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As an admin, I want to reindex a single documentMay be free again @caro3801 claimed this 222 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openfeat frozen
ICIJ/datashare#2085 · 1 assignee ·
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[structure extraction] design: user flow to extract structured data from tablesMay be free again @Soliine claimed this 341 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opendesign frozen
ICIJ/datashare#1949 · 6 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100
ICIJ/datashare#1860 · 1 comment ·
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bug: class markers in task argument serializationMay be free again @bamthomas claimed this 594 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openfrozen
ICIJ/datashare#1692 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·
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