The Source Ledger
Follow a claim back to its source. This ledger distinguishes original texts and records from later accounts, scholarly readings, and model-derived features.
The 6 Provenance Tiers
The creative or authorial storytelling artifact itself, rendered in its native medium.
Official institutional data, legal filings, administrative logs, declassified cables, or state proceedings.
First-draft accounts written or broadcast within hours or days of an unfolding event, reflecting initial uncertainty.
Oral testimony, memoirs, or eyewitness recollections captured months or decades later, demonstrating memory restructuring.
Peer-reviewed critical theory, historical synthesis, formal narratological modeling, or academic critique.
Computational NLP parsing, agent extraction, semantic distance calculation, or graph topology. Explicitly declared to preserve epistemic hygiene.
The 7 Open Machine-Readable Source Backbones
Powers the Story Genome, character co-occurrence networks, opening/ending computational taxonomy, and motif lineage tracking.
Access: Direct catalog metadata feeds & full machine-readable text (robot policy compliant)
Provides primary-source corpora, manuscript facsimiles, and the cross-medium narrative source graph.
Access: Unrestricted public JSON/YAML API (no API key required)
Drives the Historical Frame Engine, tracking headline evolution, moral language inflection, and how unfolding disasters crystallize into myths.
Access: Open REST API & OCR bulk directory access
Fuels the Public Memory Lab, comparing lived eyewitness memory against official state narratives to reveal memory as a constructive narrative process.
Access: Digitized audio recordings, transcripts & ethnographic metadata
Powers The Official Story and Narrative Diff, dissecting the boundary between raw archival record and constructed state narrative.
Access: Catalog REST API & declassified records bulk export
Drives the Political Story Machine, measuring agency assignment, metaphor recruitment ('War on X'), and decades-long rhetorical frame migration.
Access: Bulk data repository & structured GovInfo REST API
Grounds the Narrative Scholarship Graph, mapping the genealogy of narratological theorists (Genette, Propp, Bakhtin, Barthes) to their cited evidence.
Access: Open public REST API with semantic topic clustering