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About the Project

Inspiration

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) play a crucial role in addressing global challenges. However, ensuring that project metadata remains up-to-date and accurately reflects SDG alignment is a time-consuming and error-prone task. We wanted to automate this process to make it more efficient, scalable, and accessible.

What We Learned

Throughout this project, we gained valuable insights into:

• Automating workflows using GitHub Actions
  
• Structuring and storing metadata using JSON and YAML formats
  
• Building RESTful APIs using Django and Django REST Framework
  
• Handling data consistency and synchronization challenges in open-source ecosystems
  

How We Built It

1. Web-Based Metadata Generation

   • A Django-based web application where users input project details and select SDG alignments.
     
   • Metadata is stored in a database and exported as JSON/YAML.
     

2. GitHub Action for Automated Metadata Updates

   • When a project repository is updated, an action triggers a script that regenerates the metadata automatically.
     

3. API for Fetching SDG-Aligned Projects

   • A REST API that allows users and external systems to query SDG-aligned projects dynamically.
     

Challenges We Faced

• Ensuring Metadata Accuracy: Managing dynamic updates while preventing inconsistencies.
  
• Integration with GitHub: Configuring GitHub Actions to work seamlessly with repositories.
  
• Scaling to Open Source Projects: Identifying open-source projects with appropriate licenses to expand metadata generation beyond individual repositories.
  

Future Improvements

• Expanding metadata generation to all open-source projects based on their licenses.
  
• Enhancing search and filtering capabilities in the API to make SDG-aligned projects more discoverable.
  
• Implementing AI-driven SDG classification to automatically detect project alignment.
  

Built With

• bootstrap
• css
• django
• github
• html