Thinking
Expandable traces — steps, reasoning, search, coding.
Reading collection manifests
Scanning contributor records
Comparing licence terms
Writing the intake report
Streaming answer
Provenance at three depths: chip, count, full list.
Contributor attribution is the archive's largest gap: 38% of the 1974 series has no named photographer, and licence terms are missing on half of those. 
Source: archive-index.example.orgTwo partner catalogues publish the same series with fuller records.
Follow-ups
Approval
Human in the loop. One question at a time.
How many collections should we index first?
Loading
Pending work, with the time it has taken.
Indexing collections
Reading 6 collections. This runs in the background, so you can leave the page.
Empty
Three emptinesses, and they are not the same thing.
No collections yet
Point the indexer at a source and its assets will appear here as they are read.
Error
What happened, what to do, detail underneath.
Couldn’t read the Rijksmuseum collection
The source returned an unexpected response. Nothing was written to the index.
Status
Five run states, each carrying its own glyph.
Cleveland Museum
Art Institute
Rijksmuseum
Smithsonian
Harvard Art
Search field
A query, a scope, and an honest count.
Pagination
Ends, neighbours, and the range in words.
Inline alert
A condition that persists, dismissed on purpose.
Three connectors are dormant
Rijksmuseum, Smithsonian and Harvard are written but waiting on API keys.
Composer
Enter sends. While working, send becomes stop.
Turn
Who is speaking, told three ways at once.
Which collections have unresolved licence terms?
Two: Rijksmuseum and Harvard Art. Between them 61 assets carry terms that conflict with the contributor agreement, so the stricter term governs until someone resolves it.
Citations
Provenance as its own primitive.
Contributor attribution is the archive’s largest gap: 38% of the 1974 series has no named photographer.
Tool call
Arguments in, result out, both on demand.
search_collection
{
"collection": "rijksmuseum",
"query": "derivative rights",
"limit": 20
}{
"matched": 61,
"returned": 20,
"unresolved_licence": 61,
"sample": ["RM-1974-0112", "RM-1974-0118"]
}Stat
A number, what it counts, which way it is going.
1,204
61
2.18s
Chart
Two forms, one dataset. No charting library.
210
Data table
Sortable, selectable, tri-state header.
| Status | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cleveland Museum | 1,204 | ||
| Selected. Art Institute | 980 | ||
| Harvard Art | 342 | ||
| Rijksmuseum | 61 | ||
| Smithsonian | 0 |
Filter bar
The controls, and a count of what they hide.
Drawer
Detail beside the list. Both stay live; Esc closes.
Rijksmuseum
Date range
Presets first, because nobody wants a calendar.
Asset card
Licence on the face, actions on hover and focus.
Result grid
Assets at collection scale, marked up as a list.
- 1 of 4.
Harbour at dusk - 2 of 4.
Quarry road - 3 of 4.
Studio portrait - 4 of 4.
Bridge works
Facets
Grouped filters, each carrying its own count.
Filter chips
What is on, and how to turn it off.
Lightbox
One asset, without losing the set.
Quarry road
Panel
The box every layout is made of. Header, body, floor.
Collections
Cleveland Museum
Art Institute
Rijksmuseum
App frame
Rail, main, aside. A product's chrome, not this site's.
Archive
Runs
Cleveland Museum
Art Institute
Rijksmuseum
Nav list
Grouped rows, one of them current. Not a facet.
Selection bar
What you picked, and the verb for it. Floats, so the grid holds still.
2 of 1,204 selected
Dropzone
Query by image. A button as well as a target.
Sheet
Where folded chrome comes back. Nothing folds without a way home.
Ingest runs
Cleveland Museum
Art Institute
Rijksmuseum