An archive with a long horizon.
A source-led home for Assyrian knowledge, built to connect the ancient world with living people and the culture they carry forward.
more than a footnote.
A foundation, with room to grow
This expanded edition contains 122 original introductory articles and 372 locally preserved reference texts, six topic collections, a selected timeline and 518 source records. It is a navigable research foundation, not a claim to contain every available fact or an academically reviewed encyclopaedia.
The working title is Assyria | The Living Archive. The project is independent and has no implied affiliation with the institutions it cites. Content is initially in English. Native-language translations and pronunciation material require qualified review before publication.
How the archive earns trust
- Begin with Scripture for biblical accounts. Treat the Bible as the primary source for the events and peoples it records. Cite book, chapter and verse before commentary, identify the translation and keep textual differences, genre and historical interpretation visible. Read the biblical collection.
- Make claims traceable. Link introductions to named references and distinguish primary material, scholarship, testimony and institutional self-description.
- Keep the context. Ancient states, later religious traditions and modern ethnic identities need their own evidence. Do not fill historical gaps with certainty.
- Respect self-identification. Use the names people and institutions choose for themselves. Church affiliation, language and ethnicity are related but distinct.
- Show the limits. No invented population totals, unsupported casualty counts or claims of unchanged rituals across millennia. This edition is not specialist peer-reviewed.
- Preserve rights and consent. Write original summaries, link to copyrighted works, check each image licence and obtain permission for new interviews and family material.
New historical studies
The original encyclopaedia now includes deeper reading routes through Ashurnasirpal II, Tiglath-pileser III, Sargon II, Sennacherib, Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal. The supporting guides examine government, deportation, languages, ancient religion, the fall of Nineveh and later regional history. All are source-linked introductory studies, not specialist-reviewed histories.
Language and cultural heritage
Study Syriac script, letterforms and living dialect recordings in the dedicated language reference room. Eight new source-linked guides extend the archive through cuneiform interpretation, manuscripts, Unicode writing and named local Neo-Aramaic varieties. The references are documented, but no new pronunciation audio or specialist approval is claimed.
Community testimony and cultural preservation
The new community heritage and testimony room links to already published migration accounts, language recordings, cultural practices and Assyrian community institutions. It includes original research guides and blank private-first documentation worksheets, with no public upload or invented participant consent. Pending editorial and rights approvals remain visible in Next Chapters.
Editorial standards and revision record
Read the corrections policy, review roles and curated revision history to see what published changes are documented, and what still requires independent subject review. The archive retains its separate claim-level evidence queue. No unverified reviewer is represented as a completed specialist review.
Publication and long-term stewardship
Our new preservation and publication readiness page explains checksum-backed site manifests, a tested offline recovery export and human release gates. The archive remains deliberately unindexed pending review. A local manifest does not mean that an independent or offsite backup has already been established.
Source and accessibility auditing
The public audit report and methods distinguish validated citation metadata from real external link availability and from scholarly verification. New automated checks cover navigation and form semantics across representative pages. Manual device, screen-reader and Syriac shaping reviews remain pending.
Historical and biblical evidence dossiers
Eight new historical evidence dossiers compare passages in Kings, Isaiah, Chronicles, Nahum and Zephaniah with the Black Obelisk, Sennacherib's prisms, Lachish reliefs and the Babylonian Chronicle. Each section preserves its own source role, and new claim records remain queued for independent review.
The Middle Assyrian world and everyday life
Our nine new social-history studies trace households, legal rules and practice, agricultural water management, workers, regional administration, scribes and religious institutions through documented Middle Assyrian archives. The ancient Bible passages are identified separately by date and genre; later imperial accounts are not presented as contemporaneous evidence for second-millennium households.
Individual tablets and archaeological case files
The case-file room identifies nine distinct physical objects by museum collection or CDLI/edition number, text line scope, dating and provenance. Eight are Middle Assyrian records; the later Babylonian Chronicle of Nineveh is explicitly separated by period. Research notes distinguish the text or object from interpretive conjecture and outstanding philological review.
Ancient text and translation comparisons
The side-by-side original-language room displays sixteen brief source-attributed sign-sequence excerpts from seven individually edited Middle Assyrian tablets. English reading cues, competing interpretive limits and damaged or restored marks appear beside each line. Two other object files lack a verified line edition and are explicitly held back. A new transliteration method guide explains the research limitations and credits the source editor.
Ancient text concordance and cross-reference index
The curated concordance links 25 source-scoped topics across exact tablet-line excerpts, wider object catalogues, related encyclopaedia chapters and eleven biblical reading routes. A search and subject filter work without remote services. Connections explicitly distinguish edited inscription lines, documentary context and biblical accounts, and do not assert the same event merely from shared terminology.
The next chapters
View the measured encyclopaedia expansion and preservation record. Inspect the evidence and citation register. Review the claim-level evidence queue. Inspect the editorial and correction record. The milestones below are maintained from a single roadmap file, including completed, in-progress, proposed and blocked work.
Foundation and discovery
Delivered: Original articles, six topics, search, reading lists and a selected timeline. The Explore category buttons, search and sort now initialise reliably following the global search trigger fix; the browser behaviour is covered by a complete-script regression test.
Next: Continue to maintain links, accessibility and source attribution.
AVAILABLEBiblical primary-text collection
Delivered: Local Bible reader, named-reference index and 26 original guides with explicit passage references.
Next: Add careful textual comparison and qualified specialist review where applicable.
AVAILABLEEncyclopaedia expansion and preservation
Delivered: Expanded the original collection with 14 specialist-sourced, independently authored historical guides covering eight rulers, governance, deportation, religion, languages, the imperial collapse and later regional history. Added 56 section-level reading trails, 10 source records and dated timeline routes. Earlier preserved reference corpus, glossary and measured growth dashboard remain available. Added another eight original language and heritage studies without importing unlicensed texts. Six further original methods and community-heritage studies now complement ancient history and linguistic resources. Milestone 9 adds eight long-form Bible-primary, object-identified comparisons (40 precisely mapped new sections), six curated specialist and museum reference records and a public evidence dossier reading hub. The release also connects the new studies to older Bible and history entries. Nine additional Middle Assyrian social-history guides provide 45 sourced sections and a period-sensitive non-royal reading pathway. Nine original accession-level tablet and archaeological object case files add 36 linked research sections with explicit physical source identifiers. A new five-section guide teaches cuneiform sign transliteration, normalized Akkadian and source-critical translation uncertainty.
Next: The full-inventory substantive-content pass is complete. Prioritise further depth and claim-level verification over numerical expansion, preserving attributed reference texts and useful dedicated methodology pages. Continue original-language and household records, while independently checking Church of the East and Chaldean naming sources. Expand evidence-based Assyrian heritage across denominations without confusing ancient Kaldu, Syriac language classification or church membership with a universal modern identity assignment. Any assertion of descent from ancient Babylonian Kaldu must be supported by affirmative primary evidence, not name reuse, church affiliation or self-description.
IN PROGRESSThe Middle Assyrian world and everyday life
Delivered: Published nine original source-mapped guides with 45 substantive editorial sections about Middle Assyrian provincial administration, law, women, households, fields, irrigation, livestock, dependent labour, ration lists, scribal archives, sealings, religion and exchange. Added ten externally attributed specialist source records, fourteen anchored claim reviews, a public research hub, reciprocal reading routes and a non-royal timeline entry. Legal prescriptions are distinguished from practice; Old and Neo-Assyrian and biblical comparisons are explicitly dated and limited. Follow-up object cases now connect social-history claims to seven dated or period-assigned Oracc tablet editions and a seal-impressed museum object. October 2026 visual consistency patch: Middle Assyrian study tiles now retain the same theme-aware card background as Explore and use its subtle shadow and lift on hover, including keyboard focus-within. Removed the fixed pale hover fill that contrasted strongly with dark mode, while preserving the nine study links and responsive grid. Added a regression test comparing CSS declarations with Explore and validating both theme surfaces. The tile hover QOL correction was merged in PR #36 at commit 25ce95135a3eac7577f112f4dfa9be92aeb29b56 after successful root and GitHub Pages project-path validation and registered as public revision REV-0021. All nine guides have now been rewritten as self-contained historical explanations, with compact pinpoint citations and named examples from the laws, letters and receipts.
Next: Extend from introductory object dossiers to named and dated legal, women, family, agricultural and temple cases with exact line collations and qualified Assyriological and palaeographic review. Keep Middle Assyrian tile hover/focus appearance and dark/light contrast aligned with the Explore cards during future theme updates.
IN PROGRESSReadable, substantive encyclopaedia articles
Delivered: Reviewed headings and body lengths across 122 original articles (96 foundation/expanded articles and 26 biblical guides) to identify short bodies and method-led sections. Rewritten all nine Middle Assyrian guides, replacing research instructions and bibliography commentary with 45 explanatory sections on legal provisions, household relationships, agriculture, labour, scribal work, worship and provincial exchange. Added five individual scholarly or primary-source records, compact citations with page or tablet-line locators, readable paragraph breaks and updated claim anchors. These changes deepen existing articles rather than adding to article counts. Merged as PR #37, commit f2a33635d72df6d2e532fb59d83f03f4898e9bfd, after successful root and project-path checks; recorded as REV-0022. Completed the full-inventory editorial pass across 639 HTML routes and all 122 original articles: expanded 106 articles with 186 explanatory sections or integrated additions, retained 16 with recorded reasons, and preserved full local reference texts and Bible chapters. Added exact bounded Scripture excerpts, a generated route-purpose inventory, article-level review decisions and regression coverage. The prior nine Middle Assyrian rewrites remain included. No claim of independent historical review is made. Merged as PR #38, commit ba033e0b1965fa25e0186889592c6ad1c8e8fe49, after successful GitHub validation; recorded as REV-0023. Reference presentation follow-up: restored shaded citation boxes with full source titles, publishers and precise locations across all mapped original sections, merged as PR #39 at 798c1a0af470a165646b42747cb0aa493203344f and recorded as REV-0024.
Next: Maintain substantive explanation as articles change. Deepen concise introductions with named examples and more specific primary editions, and obtain independent historical, biblical and linguistic review. Consult docs/CONTENT-REVIEW.md and the generated content-review.json for this pass's scope and limits. Review new routes and articles individually; automated checks and word counts do not establish accuracy.
AVAILABLEIndividual tablet studies and archaeological case files
Delivered: Published nine original, individually identified object studies with 36 separate section-to-source evidence trails. Eight are Middle Assyrian tablets or a seal-impressed museum object, and one later Babylonian Chronicle is explicitly separate. Each study displays accession or CDLI/edition IDs, provenance or acknowledged missing findspot, chronology, source-document type, relevant edited line scope and an external institutional record. Eight new source records and twelve anchored review claims accompany a browsable /case-files/ hub, a public JSON catalogue and automated metadata, accessibility and deployment checks. A follow-up transliteration layer now provides 16 short cited source-text lines with original editorial glosses for seven edited tablets; two other objects remain explicitly edition-pending. A curated concordance now connects named object catalogues and exact edited lines to terms, other research articles and separate biblical accounts.
Next: Continue individual specialist edition and findspot verification and extend object-level indexing only when terms and manuscript contexts are independently checked.
IN PROGRESSAncient texts and translation comparisons
Delivered: Published a side-by-side ancient-text reading room and embedded comparison panels on all nine archaeological object articles. Sixteen very short credited sign-sequence excerpts from seven ATMAP/TCMA Middle Assyrian edited tablets include line identifiers, editorial English reading cues, source interpretive limits and visible damaged, restored or queried notation. Two catalogue-only objects have no invented transliteration or translation. Added one five-section methodological article with precise section evidence links, three new technical and scholarly source references, nine additional anchored claim-review records, a public comparison JSON export and negative tests that reject missing credit, false periods and fabricated unverified text. Follow-up concordance links now target stable identifiers for the sixteen short credited transliteration lines, with document-level fallback where no line edition exists.
Next: Commission independent collation of the cited line readings, support documented alternative readings and maintain consistent term disambiguation between ancient sources.
IN PROGRESSAncient text concordance and cross-reference index
Delivered: Published a locally compiled, search-and-filter accessible concordance of 25 manually curated people, place, materials, institutions and text-method entries. It includes 32 documented object-level or edition-specific cross-references, 43 reading routes into existing encyclopaedia chapters, and 11 Bible comparison routes with deliberate genre/period separation. Edited text references deep-link directly to unique quotation-line IDs; object-only catalogue evidence is kept distinct. Reciprocal links appear on relevant editorial article pages, and an offline JSON export, regression tests, accessible search controls, main navigation links and live deployment checks are implemented. No extra original article or external source records are claimed.
Next: Use the new evidence-limited name and identity register to guide source-checked editorial links. Extend term coverage only after independent specialists verify original names and disambiguation evidence.
IN PROGRESSAncient names and historical identity disambiguation
Delivered: Published eight individual name and place dossiers with twelve source-scoped object and biblical reading routes. Each records exact concordance anchors, name forms, what its current evidence does and does not establish, and checks needed before any historical identity claim. Added a public page and JSON export, Research navigation and concordance links, reusable validation and regression tests. The records are editorial, not independently specialist-reviewed, and they add no invented cuneiform signs, original manuscripts or new archaeological identities.
Next: Commission Assyriological and biblical specialist review of original-language names, surviving editions, physical objects, chronology and location evidence. Require exact new accession or inscription line references and recorded reviewer assessment before asserting same-person or same-place identifications.
IN PROGRESSChaldean Catholic affiliation and shared Assyrian heritage - source-critical identity history
Delivered: Expanded and independently re-sourced the Assyrian identity, Syriac Christian traditions and Chaldean Catholic Church articles, and added a ten-section Chaldean naming and Assyrian heritage guide exposed under Explore. The archive states clearly that Catholic religious communion and a church title alone cannot establish an ancient separate ethnicity or language; it documents common East Syriac and Assyrian heritage, distinguishes the ancient Babylonian Kaldu from modern church terminology, identifies Chaldean church-label use in 1445 and Catholic developments in the sixteenth century, and corrects the false implication that modern ethnic applications were invented only in the late 1990s. It documents Assyrian cross-denominational advocacy and differing contemporary individual ethnic self-identification without imposing a label on every person. Seven new independent/institutional specialist source records bring the curated source library from 131 to 138, first-party Chaldean Catholic sources now disclose that they are not independent authorities on ethnicity, source trails for four identity-related articles cover 29 sections including the retained legacy naming paragraph and bring total mapped sections to 376, and eight additional pending claims CL-081 to CL-088 bring the anchored review register to 88. CI now checks source identities, institutional role caveats, ancient-modern category limits and navigation. This source correction and new guide were merged as PR #33 at commit 0703307fc5a8f4cab13cd4ef6464acafb09643bf, after passing all research source tests and full root and Pages project-path validation. The public revision ledger records this release as REV-0018. Follow-up academic evidence-standard clarification explicitly classifies claimed descent of modern Chaldean Catholics from southern Babylonian Kaldu as NOT DEMONSTRATED in the archive's source record, distinguishing modern identity descriptions from proof of ancient genealogy. Adds independent Elizabeth E. Payne ancient-history entry and strengthens GEDSH, Hanoosh, Dandamayev and Donabed source-provenance metadata; raises the curated source catalogue to 139, the 4-article section evidence trail coverage from 29 to 32 (379 total), and the anchored claim-review queue to 91 with CL-089 to CL-091. The new explicit findings are source-checked and subject to named specialist review. The primary-evidence threshold clarification merged as PR #34 at commit 29dd1a23005f0c38b9f15dcd56e5706afcb074d1, with CI passing root and GitHub Pages subpath builds and the full historical and claim-source regression suite. Its exact publication record is REV-0019.
Next: Pursue primary dated Kaldu inscription and original 1445 Benedictus sit Deus collation and require any assertion of an ancient-to-modern Kaldu ancestry to cite positive original linkage rather than conjecture. Obtain named Assyriological and East Syriac academic review, trace original Raphael Bidawid statements to original recordings or publications, and continue building independent Assyrian cross-denominational continuity sources. Distinguish a social contemporary ethnic self-description from proof of ancient genealogical descent; keep church assertions in their institutional evidence role.
IN PROGRESSRoyal inscriptions and biblical cross-verification
Delivered: Introduced a source-scoped research room with six side-by-side comparisons covering Shalmaneser III and Jehu, Sargon II and Ashdod, Sennacherib's Judah campaign, Jerusalem, tribute quantities and the distinct Lachish palace relief. Five cases identify exact ORACC royal edition coordinates (Q004693, Q006488 and Q003496); the sixth retains British Museum object 124904 as visual evidence, not invented cuneiform text. Three new primary edition source records and ten validated biblical reading routes are documented. Explicitly retains the 800 versus 300 silver talent disagreement and independently reviewed status remains pending. Includes offline JSON, reciprocal encyclopaedia links, Research navigation, CI negative tests and generated-link checks. Four directly anchored claim review records and four new source mappings in existing historical guides link each named royal edition to exact article-level arguments, bringing the total pending claim review register to 66. This feature was merged as PR #29 after root and GitHub Pages subpath validation; the public release ledger records the actual immutable merge SHA.
Next: Obtain independent Assyriological, biblical and chronological review of all six original royal comparisons. The separately released Samaria succession room now covers Tiglath-pileser III, Shalmaneser V and Sargon II. Further expansion to Esarhaddon, the fall of Nineveh and other new editions must retain exact source identifiers and no invented harmonisation.
IN PROGRESSThe Fall of Samaria and Assyrian succession
Delivered: Published a dedicated four-phase research room following Menahem, northern annexations, the broken Pekah-Hoshea succession account, Shalmaneser V's siege setting, competing Sargon II conquest claims, royal deportation totals and variants, and later provincial resettlement. Eight separately scoped comparisons cite five exact RINAP 1/2 royal editions plus a clearly labelled specialist synthesis, with twelve biblical reading routes, direct edition locations, restored-sign and chronographic limitations. The dataset has an offline JSON export, accessible progressive phase filtering, Research navigation, reciprocal encyclopedia dossier links, and a six-section expansion of the existing Samaria study with six anchored claim-level checks. A dedicated negative-test suite covers fabricated lines, swapped Bible ranges and false royal attribution. Maintained sources expanded from 119 to 124 and the pending claim review register from 66 to 72. The feature was merged as PR #30 at commit c2d15f93edbe3d99e167351271103174c15d560e after successful CI root and project-path builds; the public revision ledger now records its immutable source.
Next: Commission independent Assyriological review of RINAP 1 Q003455 damaged Pekah/Hoshea verb and the Q006488/Q006555 Samarian deportation numerical variants, with exemplar-by-exemplar collation and alternative readings. Evaluate the Babylonian Chronicle references to Shalmaneser V without equating same-sounding towns; obtain biblical chronological review of 2 Kings 17-18. Only after review consider qualified atlas province boundaries and detailed historical date bands. The new exile/provinces reading room further anchors a Samaria administrative letter outside royal victory rhetoric.
IN PROGRESSExile, resettlement and life in Assyrian provinces
Delivered: A new source-typed research room examines twelve separate comparisons across northern deportation, biblical destinations Halah, Gozan-Habor and the Medes, Sargonic resettlement and named new settlers, an original Neo-Assyrian Samarian corn-tax letter SAA 1 220 / P334789, separately identified Aramaean logistics and marriage correspondence SAA 19 17-18, two distinct museum reliefs, and provincial archaeological interpretation. Includes seventeen precise Bible reading routes, thirteen cross-linked source records and a five-category accessible filter, machine-readable local JSON and reciprocal article links. The existing Assyrian deportation dossier gained seven newly written substantial sections and the Samaria dossier an additional non-royal archival case study, adding eight mapped evidence trails. Seven new individual institutional or academic records increased the curated source library from 124 to 131; eight text-anchored claims CL-073 to CL-080 brought the pending-review queue to 80. Source roles and limitations are encoded and regression-tested; categories and menu lengths are rebalanced. User-device and independent expert review remain open. The release merged as PR #32 at commit 424e0db538d6dbca808ff795a14260291c0f4cc9 after passing all unit/invariant tests and full root and Pages-subpath validation. Its original merge is recorded as REV-0017.
Next: Secure Assyriological line review of SAA 01 220 (P334789) and directly trace SAA 19 17, SAA 19 18 and SAA 16 63 to the original surviving tablets and verified signs. Commission a historical-geographical review of Halah-Halahhu, Guzana, Habor, Median destinations and their chronological assumptions before plotting any migration route. Review Oxford and Cambridge provincial archaeology in full and resolve image rights before expanding museum illustrations. Pursue provincial letters and household records without equating name forms, modern identities, and deportee ancestry.
IN PROGRESSInteractive historical atlas
Delivered: The interactive historical atlas has eleven dated teaching stages with preserved offline basemap data, timeline playback, modern geography and city context. Milestone 3 adds chapter-specific reconstruction limits, source-by-source scope notes, clearer differentiation of provincial control from vassalage or temporary military reach, 21 linked historical and biblical reading routes, and checks that keep map citations and article links current.
Next: Continue specialist cartographic and historical review before refining polygon coordinates. Map individual provinces only when dated inscriptional, administrative and archaeological evidence supports them. Test real browser behaviour, reduced-motion support and mobile readability. No numerical border certainty or ancient area estimates are justified.
IN PROGRESSSection-level source traceability
Delivered: Evidence Register, source-to-guide links and 379 section-level evidence trails across 96 editorial guides, including 24 new heritage and community research sections. Added 32 curated object and edited-line concordance relationships, 43 chapter links and 11 separately labelled Scripture comparisons; these are indexed connections rather than new section-level evidence trails.
Next: Extend term-level and passage-level verification with qualified specialists, preserving documented edited-line identity and the distinction between lexical similarities and historical equivalence. Maintain a source-role audit of church institutional claims used in contested Assyrian/Chaldean identity sections.
AVAILABLEHistorical claim verification
Delivered: The claim-level review register now contains 91 text-anchored records, including seventy-six newer biblical, inscriptional and edition-method records, with nine additional transliteration and uncertainty checks linked to named texts. Passage coordinates, direct-vs-context source roles and review limitations are validated; no independent specialist reviews have been claimed.
Next: Prioritise independent review of the direct royal inscription comparisons and existing 91 claim reviews; checks of ORACC IDs, edition coordinates and local Bible passages establish traceability, not historical agreement.
IN PROGRESSAssyrian languages and cultural heritage
Delivered: Added eight original specialist-sourced guides with 32 section reading trails on cuneiform interpretation, Syriac manuscript hands and Unicode, local NENA dialects, Urmi documentation, Surayt and ethical recording. A new navigable language reference room presents 22 Unicode-identified Syriac letters, links to HMML manuscript lessons and Cambridge field recordings for Urmi, Alqosh and Ankawa. No third-party audio or protected manuscript images are copied. A new original reading-method guide and linked short transliteration comparisons make editorial sign notation and damage/restoration distinctions explicit.
Next: Get an Assyriologist to review original Akkadian notation in all seven excerpted editions. Add additional original-language documentation without falsely presenting a Syriac translation of a cuneiform tablet.
IN PROGRESSCommunity testimony and heritage media
Delivered: Launched a public heritage and oral-history reference room containing ten previously published, externally linked records across migration, community institutions, cultural practice and living speech. Added six original method and history guides with 24 source-mapped sections, three blank downloadable planning worksheets, a locally filtered source index and explicit rights, narrator consent and privacy safeguards. No family submissions or protected recordings have been collected or published.
Next: Establish a separately authorised custodian, secure intake and informed-consent review process before collecting personal testimony. Invite community and subject specialists, document narrator review and access restrictions, and add village-specific sourced entries and permission-cleared media only after the needed agreements exist.
IN PROGRESSSecure contribution delivery
Delivered: Dormant backend is retained and public contributions remain download-only.
Next: Do not imply a working private corrections inbox or media-intake workflow. Authorise a protected, staffed delivery service before taking personal reports, promising responses or storing consent records.
ON HOLDEditorial governance and revision history
Delivered: Published a public editorial governance and revision room, correction/clarification/withdrawal policy, defined role disclosures, two blank release and correction planning documents, and a validated register of twenty-four merged major milestones (including governance, stewardship, source/accessibility, historical evidence, Middle Assyrian life, object case files, original-language comparisons and the source concordance, name disambiguation original royal source comparisons and the fall of Samaria succession dossier) with their actual merged commits and pull request links. No independent reviewers have been assigned or claimed, and no confirmed public correction notices have been fabricated. Existing article and local correction-draft flows now link to the policy.
Next: Record substantive merged content releases and any documented corrections against actual GitHub merges. Obtain named independent review of inscription readings and Bible comparisons, and complete human accessibility review before publication-readiness claims.
IN PROGRESSSource integrity and accessibility audit
Delivered: Added an offline structural audit for the maintained curated institutional source URLs, a separate bounded monthly/manual HTTP health workflow with inconclusive 403/429/timeout handling, a public audit and metadata report, representative-page accessibility markup checks, and automated test coverage. Repaired multi-menu keyboard disclosure handling, improved focus and reduced-motion CSS, and introduced nonvisual atlas chapter status announcements. These checks do not claim real browser testing, all-source remote verification or full WCAG conformance.
Next: Run and manually assess the scheduled URL-health observations for the expanded 113-record curated source registry, then test screen readers and zoom on the new case-file provenance panels. Retain indexing as blocked on human approvals.
IN PROGRESSPublication and long-term stewardship
Delivered: Added a dedicated public publication and preservation room, deterministic SHA-256 fixity manifest covering generated files, strict missing/extra/tampered-file verification, recoverable deterministic ZIP export with tested extraction, CI negative tests and restore checks for build and Pages deployment, plus selected live-file hash probes and an operational recovery runbook. Existing noindex safeguards remain unchanged.
Next: Assign a backup custodian and establish independent offsite copies and restoration drills. Use the new source and accessibility audit procedures to review remote citations and real-device WCAG 2.2 usability before any indexing approval. Rights, specialist historical/linguistic review and live publisher availability still require human checks.
IN PROGRESSWhat needs people, not automation
Specialist review is essential for contested history, language accuracy and religious interpretation. Community participation should broaden whose experiences are represented, with space for disagreement and clear attribution. Open contribution must come with moderation and a way to correct the record.
Privacy and local storage
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