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Store only the fields necessary for discovery and crosswalks until reuse terms are reviewed.", "candidate_uses": [ "Adopt evidence-tier, confidence-state, human-review, official-response, and allegation/court-finding patterns in The Record's own schema.", "Crosswalk contradictions, promises, sequences, and consequences to existing The Record entries.", "Use entry history and related-record endpoints to detect corrections and lifecycle developments.", "Offer a federated search result that links to Record47 without representing its disposition as The Record's verdict." ], "dedup_keys": [ "Record47 entry ID", "formal government identifier", "canonical source URL", "docket or filing identifier", "person plus date plus normalized quote hash", "normalized event title and date" ], "auto_publish_to_the_record": false, "content_import_permission_state": "metadata_and_citation_allowed_full_content_license_review_required" }, "last_check": { "checked_at": "2026-10-02T22:02:20Z", "state": "source_inconsistency", "verification_pages": [ "https://record47.org/", "https://api.record47.org/counts", "https://api.record47.org/entries?limit=1" ], "note": "Primary rendered page displayed 332 contradictions, 3,539 primary sources, 38 sequences and 6,348 social posts. The public API count and entries endpoints could not be retrieved during this check, so earlier API measurements remain preserved and the source inconsistency stays open." } } ], "proposed_federation_pipeline": { "principle": "One research home requires more than a directory: a registry and preserved upstream links feed deduplicated federated records, and every record that advances past research_lead receives The Record's complete sourced and interpretive structure before it can appear as reviewed or published.", "stages": [ { "order": 1, "name": "registry_health_check", "output": "data/archive_registry.json", "action": "During each six-hour run, check only archives whose recommended interval is due. Record HTTP state, checked_at, last_successful_fetch_at, last_changed_at, upstream displayed date, ETag or Last-Modified when available, and parser version." }, { "order": 2, "name": "metadata_staging", "output": "data/external_archive_snapshots/{archive_id}.json", "action": "Retrieve permitted metadata into an append-only staging layer. Preserve upstream ID, canonical URL, record unit, title, dates, lifecycle state, source URLs, retrieval time, and a payload hash." }, { "order": 3, "name": "candidate_crosswalk", "output": "data/external_crosswalk_candidates.json", "action": "Match formal identifiers first, canonical source URLs second, and title/date or quote fingerprints last. Never merge merely because two titles sound similar." }, { "order": 4, "name": "source_identity_and_duplicate_review", "output": "data/federated_records.json", "action": "Create research_lead records with preserved archive IDs and units. Inspect original sources, calculate deterministic dedupe_key and event_family_key values, merge same-event origins as aliases, and crosslink distinct lifecycle stages. Duplicate origin or event keys block every reviewed or published status." }, { "order": 5, "name": "interpretive_normalization", "output": "data/federated_records.json", "action": "Before any record advances beyond research_lead, require atomic sourced facts plus significance, goalpost/response, maybe_therefore, evidence tier and confidence, provenance and copyright boundary, consequences, duplicate clearance, and append-only revisions. External archive prose is not a fact source and is not bulk-copied." }, { "order": 6, "name": "public_archive_network", "output": "archive-network/index.html", "action": "Publish archive cards, unit-specific counts, scope and cadence notes, check health, and confirmed crosslinks. Federated records appear only at their validated status; reviewed and published records render the complete interpretive structure. Show no grand total." }, { "order": 7, "name": "quality_receipt", "output": "release/archive-network-receipt.json", "action": "Record changed counts, new and merged origins, dedupe decisions, lifecycle crosslinks, interpretive gate results, rejected candidates, upstream failures, schema or parser changes, and licensing decisions." } ], "failure_behavior": [ "Use the last successful snapshot and mark it stale.", "Do not turn parser failure into a zero count.", "Do not delete a crosswalk merely because an upstream URL is temporarily unavailable.", "Do not advance a duplicate, an unlinked lifecycle update, or a record missing maybe_therefore beyond research_lead.", "Alert when a count falls unexpectedly, a scope label changes, or an upstream site contradicts its own displayed totals.", "Require a parser-fixture test before deploying any upstream adapter change." ] }, "recommended_feature_adoption": [ { "priority": 1, "feature": "canonical_statement_artifact_links", "inspiration": "Trump Archive", "recommendation": "Keep raw posts, speeches, and documents in a separate artifact layer, then link them to verified events rather than counting each utterance as an event." }, { "priority": 2, "feature": "policy_lifecycle_and_restoration_states", "inspiration": "UndoTrump", "recommendation": "Add proposed, implemented, in litigation, partially blocked, reversed, expired, restored, and outcome-measured states with dated transitions." }, { "priority": 3, "feature": "predecessor_subsequent_action_and_litigation_chains", "inspiration": "Immigration Policy Tracking Project", "recommendation": "Connect a policy to the rule or directive it replaced, later implementation, litigation, court actions, rescission, replacement, and continuing effect." }, { "priority": 4, "feature": "evidence_confidence_review_and_revision_controls", "inspiration": "Record47", "recommendation": "Add normalized evidence tiers, confidence and dispute states, human-review state, source preservation, official responses, contradiction arcs, consequence chains, and revision history." }, { "priority": 5, "feature": "complete_federated_interpretive_record", "inspiration": "The Record", "recommendation": "Treat external archives as discovery and provenance inputs. Every record that advances beyond research lead must be rewritten from inspected sources into facts, significance, goalpost/response, maybe_therefore, evidence/confidence, provenance, consequences, and revisions, with no copied bulk prose." }, { "priority": 6, "feature": "federated_search", "inspiration": "All four archives", "recommendation": "Search The Record first and show separately labeled external results by unit. A public-statement result, policy action, immigration policy, and executive-conduct entry must retain different badges and never collapse into an undifferentiated count." } ] }