Source discovery
Candidate sources start as public university policy pages, teaching center guidance, IT/security guidance, procurement pages, PDFs, and other clearly labeled official or source-attributed materials.
Methodology
How records become source-backed claims
The tracker is built around official sources, source snapshots, short evidence snippets in the original source language, machine confidence, and explicit review state. It is a public reference database, not legal advice or academic integrity advice.
Evidence workflow
From public source discovery to citation-ready records
Snapshots
Fetching uses plain HTTP first. When a source is captured, normalized text receives a content hash so future checks can detect whether a source changed.
Claim extraction
A policy claim is one assertion about a university, tool, theme, or future course entity. Claims keep confidence separate from review state so machine certainty is not confused with approval.
Evidence binding
Every public claim must trace to a source URL, source snapshot hash, short evidence snippet, source language, and rights caveat. Original source evidence is preserved in its source language.
Change detection
Changed source hashes can create new snapshots, extraction candidates, claim updates, and change records. Diff pages are planned after the current claim/evidence contract is stable.
Limitations
University policies can be distributed across departments, courses, PDFs, and internal systems. Sparse records remain labeled as early coverage until reviewed evidence supports stronger conclusions.
Review states
Review state is not the same as confidence
machine_candidate
A crawler, extractor, or seed process produced the record. It is visible only with candidate labeling and must not be treated as a final policy conclusion.
needs_review
The source, extraction, date, or classification needs another review pass before the claim can be used as a trusted public summary.
agent_reviewed
A reviewing agent checked the evidence and classification, but the record is still distinct from a human-reviewed or institution-verified claim.
human_reviewed
A human reviewer or deterministic publish rule has approved the claim for public reference, while the linked source remains the authority.
institution_verified
A future verification label reserved for official institution correction or confirmation workflows. It will not replace source URLs, source hashes, or original-language evidence.
Publication rules
What must exist before a claim is public
- Every public claim needs a source URL and source snapshot hash.
- Evidence snippets stay short, necessary, and source-attributed.
- Original-language evidence is canonical; translation is display-only.
- Canonical facts and localized display must remain separate.
- Candidate claims must be labeled and must not be used as final summaries.
- Official source documents retain their original rights and terms.
This tracker is not legal advice, not academic integrity advice, and not an official university statement unless a linked source is the university's own official page.
Use the citation guide for attribution rules, the datasets page for public JSON access, and recent changes for freshness signals.