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Floor 2

The Wings

Seven civilizational traditions gathered as wings of one building.

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grid_view The CatalogueEvery room, faceted and exportable. grid_view All WingsSeven traditions, one building. hub Greco-RomanBrowse the GR wing. hub SinosphereBrowse the SI wing. hub IndosphereBrowse the IN wing. hub IslamicateBrowse the IS wing. hub AfrosphereBrowse the AF wing.

Floor 3

Reading Halls

Tools that read across the collection — by time, by theme, by comparison.

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timeline Timeline HallEvery wing on one chronological axis. route CorridorsFollow a text to its neighbours in tradition and time. compare Compare RoomTexts shoulder to shoulder on shared measures. shelves ShelvesCollections built from real metadata.

Floor 4

The Workshop

How the building is made: sources, provenance, and data access.

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database Source ArchiveRepositories, provenance, licensing. verified Conservation & ProvenanceHow sources are admitted and graded. code Data & APIThe same fields, as data.

Floor 5

The Institute

Who keeps the library, by what standards, and how it was made.

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apartment The InstitutePurpose and commitments. rule Editorial StandardsEvidence markers and translation policy. balance Open Source LedgerWhat is open, and under what terms. menu_book ColophonHow the building was made.
Floor 2 · The Wings
The CatalogueAll WingsGreco-RomanSinosphereIndosphereIslamicateAfrosphere
Floor 3 · Reading Halls
Timeline HallCorridorsCompare RoomShelves
Floor 4 · The Workshop
Source ArchiveConservation & ProvenanceData & API
Floor 5 · The Institute
The InstituteEditorial StandardsOpen Source LedgerColophon

Floor 4

Conservation & Provenance

How sources are admitted, graded, and carried forward. The pipeline favours structured, citable corpora over broad but messy collections.

Provenance axes declared separately, never averaged

Axis 1

Structure

TEI XML and segmented JSON are preferred; plain text is accepted when work boundaries and metadata are stable.

Axis 2

Metadata

Every exported file receives frontmatter: author, title, language, sphere, source repository and path, counts, and export date.

Axis 3

Inclusion

Discovery is broad but inclusion is selective; the registry marks works for inclusion and defers unsuitable material.

Duplicate witnesses

When several repositories hold the same work, one canonical record is shown and the alternates are retained as provenance witnesses. The public interface shows the best current text first and exposes alternate sources as evidence — not as duplicate catalogue entries.