Project Documents
This section makes the project legible as a research build rather than a black box. It gathers 15 internal methodological and reflective documents—ontology notes, concordance method, boundary audits, proposals, mistakes, aesthetic reviews, and related planning texts—that explain what the project thinks it is doing and where its assumptions have shifted over time.
These documents are part of the scholarly apparatus, not just engineering residue. They record how the database, site, and interpretive claims were assembled, where the strongest arguments lie, and where the project has had to revise itself.
| Document | Description | Words |
|---|---|---|
| Interface Design | How data becomes pages: navigation, surfacing audit, page builders, design language. | 732 |
| Data Ontology | All 22 tables: canonical entities, deprecated tables, relationships, coverage, and confidence. | 697 |
| Build Pipeline | Every script in execution order, from PDF ingestion through site generation. | 622 |
| README | Project overview for GitHub. | 1,416 |
| Execution Roadmap | What is BUILT, READY, BLOCKED, and SPECULATIVE. No hypothetical features. | 557 |
| System Architecture | Architecture, data flow, operating modes, and constraints for the HP platform. | 386 |
| Concordance Progress | How the concordance problem-solving progressed and metrics. | 1,439 |
| Concordance Methodology | How the 6-step folio-to-image concordance was built from Russell's thesis. | 1,027 |
| MIT Site Analysis | Reverse-engineering of the MIT Electronic Hypnerotomachia (1997). | 3,228 |
| Multimodal RAG Study | Vision model proposal for reading 674 manuscript images. | 2,157 |
| Image Identification | What Claude saw reading 69 BL manuscript photographs. | 1,405 |
| System Critique | Concordance system audit: 7 issues, 0 integrity errors. | 1,226 |
| Mistakes to Avoid | Twelve hard-won lessons from this project. | 1,627 |
| Session Findings | Build outward not deeper: session discoveries and philosophy. | 983 |
| Woodcut Research | 18 woodcuts: subjects, attribution, scholarly context. | 1,787 |