One history, two depths.
Story and Research are two readings of the same records. Sources, doubts, and conflicting versions accompany the narrative; Research mode opens the provenance apparatus.
METHOD · TRACEABILITY
How we build knowledge without erasing uncertainty.
The site separates narrative, source, interpretation, and open question. Research is not hidden behind the interface: it is part of it.
01 / From story to source
01Identified source
02Claim or interpretation
03Open question
The corpus is the source of truth.
The research corpus is canonical and read-only. The website and CMS are publication layers. An edit to the website must never write to a research file. Original identifiers, references, rejected hypotheses, and unpublished material are preserved.
Contradictions are preserved too.
Each claim can link to its own sources and to claims with which it disagrees. A possible duplicate is represented as a reversible relationship, never a deletion. A hypothesis does not become a fact to simplify a story.
Reconcile before importing.
Every migration requires an inventory of the available corpus. Before launch, an audit will cover published material, preserved but unpublished material, verification pending, and leads not located. This first edition has not imported the historical corpus.