Roadmap
Planned features and improvements for InspoSearch, roughly ordered by priority.
In Progress
- Documentation site — this site
- Source health dashboard — live status page showing which APIs are up/down
Planned — Near Term
- Save collections — bookmark images to named collections stored in localStorage
- Download queue — batch download selected images with attribution metadata
- Search history — recent queries stored locally with one-click re-search
- Advanced filters — date range, medium type, source category toggles in search bar
- Localisation — interface translations starting with FR, DE, ES, NL, JA
Planned — Medium Term
- Similar image search — reverse image search using perceptual hashing
- Shareable links — URL-encoded search state for sharing queries and results
- Browser extension — right-click "Search InspoSearch" on any web image
- PWA — installable progressive web app with offline search history
- Source plugins — user-submitted source manifests loadable from URL/JSON
Exploring
- Collaborative collections — shared collections via CRDTs (no server)
- Public API — JSON API for programmatic access to InspoSearch queries
- Embed widget — embeddable search widget for museum/archive websites
- Mobile app — native wrapper with offline caching
Completed
- AI research assistant with Gemini/Claude/OpenAI/Ollama (v1.5.0)
- Interpret: cross-reference (v1.5.0)
- 3D constellation view (v1.5.0)
- Board view (v1.4.0)
- Colour extraction (v1.4.0)
- Deep zoom via IIIF/OpenSeadragon (v1.4.0)
- Exact/explore search modes (v1.3.0)
- Detail view with keyboard navigation (v1.1.0)
- Reactive state management (v1.2.0)
- Rate limiter for source manifests (v1.3.0)
- 500+ sources (v1.5.0)
Suggesting Features
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