Research Hub

Primary Source Documentation & Analysis

A collection of research projects examining historical topics through comprehensive primary source documentation. Each project assembles, verifies, and organizes original documents, witness accounts, and archival records into navigable research tools.

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Active Research Projects

3 active

Book of Mormon Translation — Primary Source Table

Chronological table of 249 primary sources on the translation of the Book of Mormon. Each entry includes full bibliographic citation, transcription, hearsay classification, people tagged, and source links. Spans from 600 BC to 2021.

📄 249 sources 🏷️ 30+ hearsay tags 🖼️ 6 with images

Book of Mormon Witness Accounts

Collected testimony of the Three Witnesses, Eight Witnesses, and informal witnesses to the gold plates. Organized by witness, with cross-referenced accounts and reliability annotations.

📄 Witness testimonies 📅 1829–1900

Research Repositories Directory

Comprehensive technical directory of 30+ online archives, databases, and collections

Record Browser — 249 Primary Sources

Full record layer with provenance strips, hearsay tiers, transcriptions, and owner notes. Browse all 249 records.

People Index — 414 Names

Declarants, recorders, publishers, and mentioned persons with role-tagged record links.

Text Tool — BoM Lexical Analysis

Full Book of Mormon text with FTS5 search, parallel editions, word-level diff, and KWIC concordance.

relevant to Book of Mormon-era research (1827–1830). Covers Mormon-specific archives, regional NY/PA records, newspapers, court/land records, and academic repositories. Tagged by access tier, agent-friendliness, and rights status.

📚 30+ repositories 🏷️ Popular / Hidden Gem tags 🔌 API/IIIF notes

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Coming Soon

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Massive Research Sources Index

Unified, cross-referenced index of all primary and secondary sources across all research projects. Full-text search, faceted filtering, and source relationship graphing. The central nervous system of the research archive.

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People & Timeline Graph

Interactive network graph connecting people, events, locations, and sources from 1825–1830. Shows corroborated claims, contradictions, and evidentiary gaps. Built from the bom_timeline.db research engine.

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Joseph Knight Reminiscences — Facsimile Edition

Diplomatic transcription of MS 3470 with facing-page manuscript images. Line-by-line transcription preserving insertions, deletions, and marginalia. Currently processing via Transkribus handwriting AI.

In Transcription

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Machine Access (API)

All 249 records as newline-delimited JSON. Register as a corpus source in the Friday Research Harness.

Full record table as CSV for spreadsheet analysis.

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Pipeline & Tools

Ingestion Pipeline Documentation

Technical documentation for the source ingestion pipeline. Covers JSON schema, validation rules, image handling, deduplication, and deployment procedures.

📋 PIPELINE.md

Overview of the research viewer project — architecture, stack, data model, and contribution guidelines.