{
  "date": "2026-11-03",
  "status": "Three mockups for discussion; no production layout selected or implemented",
  "audience_priority": [
    "General public without Digital Fellows/GCDI/Graduate Center background",
    "Current and former Digital Fellows, alumni and post authors"
  ],
  "additional_audiences": [
    "Students seeking support and using services",
    "Faculty, mentors and student-facing administrators",
    "Administrators interested in university mission, identifiable outcomes and deliverables",
    "Past/current/potential funders"
  ],
  "core_jobs": [
    "Explain who the Digital Fellows are and situate the Graduate Center in CUNY",
    "Make Tagging the Tower searchable and navigable",
    "Keep random-post discovery prominent",
    "Offer a machine-driven synthesis and interpretation grounded in the authors’ voices",
    "Make data quality and interpretation reviewable by humans in both interface and code",
    "Preserve design history in an optional but discoverable form"
  ],
  "evidence_boundaries": [
    "No claim that the archive alone establishes program effectiveness or causal university outcomes",
    "A selected 19-post interpretation is not a consensus or the complete 421-post archive",
    "Differentiate guest/participant writing, article authorship and fellowship status at publication",
    "Retain annotated back-end methods, source evidence, CRediT/GAIDeT and unresolved-credit disclosures"
  ],
  "options": [
    {
      "name": "Open library",
      "organizing_principle": "Search and reading first; a visible invitation to the collective synthesis.",
      "public_orientation": "A short explanation of CUNY, the Graduate Center and Digital Fellows before search.",
      "discovery": "Prominent search and Surprise me together; results in the main column.",
      "synthesis": "A supporting panel introduces the AI-assisted reading and a named source voice.",
      "design_history": "A small footer disclosure with optional era previews.",
      "strength": "Fast route into the archive for both newcomers and returning writers.",
      "tradeoff": "The interpretive project receives less attention than search.",
      "screenshot": "open-library.png"
    },
    {
      "name": "Collective wisdom",
      "organizing_principle": "Editorial synthesis first, with the authors’ voices adjacent and archive search in a sidebar.",
      "public_orientation": "Institutional context precedes the interpretive headline; selection limits are near the claim.",
      "discovery": "Sidebar search and Meet a random post remain available.",
      "synthesis": "The main reading experience explicitly labels the AI interpretation and leads to its supporting source.",
      "design_history": "An editorial interlude, rather than an ever-present appearance studio.",
      "strength": "Communicates the project’s attempt to synthesize the authors’ collective wisdom.",
      "tradeoff": "Can privilege the AI’s narrative over direct browsing; source names, passages and limits must remain prominent.",
      "screenshot": "collective-wisdom.png"
    },
    {
      "name": "Welcoming pathways",
      "organizing_principle": "Introduce the people and institution, then offer three clear tasks: find, discover, interpret.",
      "public_orientation": "A visible Who are the Digital Fellows? block and plain-language context assume no institutional knowledge.",
      "discovery": "Separate search/browse and random-discovery actions; sample results directly below.",
      "synthesis": "A parallel pathway gives the machine-assisted reading equal conceptual standing with archive discovery.",
      "design_history": "A separate optional exhibit entered from the footer.",
      "strength": "Strongest newcomer orientation and clearest explanation of what a visitor can do.",
      "tradeoff": "Introduces an extra choice before the post list and needs a concise introduction to avoid recreating a long landing page.",
      "screenshot": "welcoming-pathways.png"
    }
  ],
  "sample": {
    "posts": [
      "19756",
      "6755",
      "23845",
      "19765",
      "20693",
      "18595"
    ],
    "source": "Existing embedded reader-data in the unchanged analysis/index.html",
    "search_scope": "Six saved example posts only; explicitly labelled in each mockup",
    "source_authorship": "Five source-supported records and one declared-credit record; current canonical display names retained",
    "random_rule": "Uniform draw among sample posts excluding the immediately previous random draw in that option",
    "interpretive_example": "Maren Rothfritz, post 6755, an explicitly credited participant reflection; excerpt supports a proposed reading about future independence, not a program-wide outcome"
  },
  "reviewed_source_revision": "cb25afc5bd4e539929ed881adf0f2f11ce3bb46a",
  "preview_fragment_sha256": "ffcaeb89c0f15abd93948e2dc51e4bc862faeea852cb566f24a2249a87bc8665",
  "validation": {
    "javascript_syntax": "node --check passed",
    "markup": "Unique element IDs; three named variants; fragment under 1 MB; no network requests in prototype script",
    "browser": "Default desktop browser, dark appearance; all three variants inspected and screenshots saved",
    "sample_search": [
      "Open library: linked data -> 2 of 6 matches",
      "Collective wisdom: no such example -> 0 of 6 matches",
      "Welcoming pathways: Maren -> 1 of 6 matches"
    ],
    "random": "Two consecutive Welcoming pathways random draws returned distinct saved post IDs; exclusion is also explicit in source",
    "synthesis": "Interpretation panel opens with named Maren Rothfritz source and scope caveat",
    "era_preview": "Welcoming pathways selector changes data-era to 2012 and back to 2026",
    "console_errors": [],
    "not_verified": [
      "Narrow-screen/browser-specific behavior",
      "Formal accessibility compliance",
      "Actual user preferences or usability outcomes",
      "Full-archive search or model fitting; these are sample interactions only",
      "Long-term validity of external source URLs"
    ],
    "attribution_structure_tests": "4 credits tests and 8 process tests passed",
    "production_preservation": "All 799 protected site/evidence file fingerprints unchanged"
  },
  "attribution": {
    "human": "Ian G. Williams specified the audiences and their order, archive/search/random/synthesis priorities, human interpretability, data quality and preservation of design history, and requested three mockups without production implementation. No option preference or approval is inferred.",
    "credit_roles": [
      "Conceptualization",
      "Methodology",
      "Project administration"
    ],
    "ai": "OpenAI Codex developed the three alternatives, drafted illustrative interface copy, reused saved post credits/text, built local preview interactions, inspected browser results and recorded the proposal history. Exact underlying model/build is not recorded.",
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      "0000047"
    ]
  }
}