Project Tracker
This page mirrors the repo-level MASTER_PROJECT_TRACKER.md. It exists so readers, contributors, and reviewers can see the whole build path: what is already public, what is candidate, what needs verification, and what comes next.
The rule is simple: move quickly, but label the layer. A page may be useful before it is final, but source fact, modern translation, mathematical reconstruction, historical note, interpretive reading, speculative connection, and needs-verification material must remain distinct.
Current Snapshot
Section titled “Current Snapshot”| Area | Current State |
|---|---|
| Public site | Astro/Starlight knowledge base deployed through GitHub Pages. |
| Source corpus | Eleven processing source records plus an expanded Wikipedia-derived bibliography intake manifest. |
| Patent corpus | Seeded patent register for the Wikipedia-listed examples, with full 200-plus catalog marked as an authority-pass milestone. |
| First canonical source | Radiation, Light and Illumination, with OCR, chapter candidates, original crops, figures, concepts, equations, and first deep pages. |
| AC visual anchors | Alternating Current Phenomena now has four promoted Chapter V scan crops for the symbolic-method sequence. |
| Transient visual anchors | Transient Electric Phenomena and Oscillations now has six promoted scan crops for starting current, condenser charge, and decrement. |
| Modern redraw sheets | Source-keyed redraw sheets now pair the AC symbolic-method crops and transient condenser-response crops with modern visual explanations. |
| Glossary anchors | Electrostatic capacity, counter-electromotive force, and effective resistance now have source-located glossary pages with modern and interpretive layers. |
| Research indexes | Generated source, concept, equation, figure, glossary, and quote indexes under processed/. |
| Verification | VERIFICATION_QUEUE.md tracks scan-check priorities before candidate material is promoted. |
| Reader UX | Sidebar Reader Mode now provides source-only filtering, page-local ask/search, translation shortcuts, diagram lightbox viewing, readable source/code transcript blocks, mobile-first responsive hardening, a direct Start Reading entry, and card-based guided routes. |
| Original source access | Source pages now expose Archive.org scan links, OCR links, and inline scan readers when stable archive IDs exist. |
| Source text browser | Generated public reader pages now expose 304 processed chapters, lectures, sections, and report divisions under /source-texts/. |
| Book coverage atlas | Generated source-level coverage pages now expose all 11 seeded books and reports under /book-coverage/, with every processed section linked to source text and workbench pages. |
| Chapter workbench | Generated research maps now expose 304 processed sections under /chapter-workbench/, joining source links, theme snippets, concept/glossary hits, equation candidates, figure candidates, quote candidates, and promotion checklists. |
| Concept concordance | Generated concept-trace pages now expose 77 curated terms and concepts under /concept-concordance/, linking each hit back to source text and chapter workbench pages. |
| Concept page dossiers | Generated source-grounded dossier sections now enrich 22 curated concept pages, including Ether, with corpus counts, source distribution, aliases, priority passages, concordance links, and next editorial actions. |
| Theme evidence atlas | Generated source-grounded theme pages now expose nine charter-critical evidence routes under /theme-evidence/, covering ether and field language, magnetism and hysteresis, dielectricity and capacity, impedance and reactance, symbolic AC method, transients and surges, waves and radiation, energy, and apparatus. |
| Deep-decoding queue | Generated promotion queue now ranks all 304 processed sections for the next curated long-form decoding pages, with global and source-balanced priorities. |
| Completion audit | Generated readiness audit now measures all 11 seeded sources against custody, structure, source-text, workbench, crop, and curated-page gates. |
| World-class criteria | Expert finishing standards now define the final path: critical editions, citation exports, canonical review, notation ledger, diagram provenance, accessibility audit, data API, and expert review packets. |
| Scholarly exports | Generated citation records, CITATION.cff, BibTeX, CSL JSON, and a public /data/manifest.json now expose the archive as reusable research data without removing review labels. |
| Review governance | Editorial policy, canonical review workflow, contribution rules, and GitHub issue templates now define how candidates become stable research pages. |
| World-class ledgers | Notation, diagram provenance, schema reference, and expert review packet ledgers now route equations, diagrams, data exports, patents, concepts, and interpretive-boundary work into reviewable bundles. |
| Publication readiness | Release levels, accessibility audit, edition comparison queue, and patent-to-theory bridge now make the path toward a public canonical release explicit. |
| Mobile readiness | Structural mobile gates now track responsive CSS coverage, source-text readers, table-heavy pages, scan embeds, diagrams, tools, and required phone/tablet review widths. |
| Canonical verification | Generated equation, figure, and patent verification queues now turn priority candidates into source-linked scan-check cards with OCR snippets, original crop records, and authority PDF tasks. |
| Claim attribution | A generated 3,380-record ledger now labels source custody, Steinmetz wording, math candidates, modern translations, diagrams, patents, and future interpretation layers before reuse. |
| Evidence ledger | processed/evidence_ledger.json indexes 3,345 source, concept, glossary, equation, figure, quote, and promoted-crop records with confidence labels. |
| Chapter atlas | processed/chapter_atlas.json maps 304 chapter, lecture, section, and report-section records to OCR/PDF-text theme counts for research routing. |
| New deep pages | General Lectures on high-frequency surges, Elementary Lectures on the electric field, Theoretical Elements on fields of force and hysteresis/effective resistance, Electric Apparatus on hysteresis motor action, Relativity and Space on the gravitational field, America and the New Epoch on industrial government as historical context, and Commonwealth Edison on reactors and synchronism. |
Master Requirement Matrix
Section titled “Master Requirement Matrix”| Original Requirement | Status | Next Step |
|---|---|---|
| Repo architecture and public site | Done, expanding | Keep navigation, roadmap, and tracker synchronized. |
| First source processing | Started | Scan-verify RLI figures, spectrum table, and lecture references. |
| Multiple Steinmetz books | Started | Promote AC, transient, engineering mathematics, Theoretical Elements, General Lectures, Electric Apparatus, America, Relativity and Space, and Commonwealth Edison pages into deeper chapter pages; continue acquiring the bibliography intake sources. |
| Expanded works and patents | Started | Use the bibliography intake and patent register to drive source acquisition, OCR, figure extraction, and public patent/source pages. |
| Concept encyclopedia | Started | Use the generated concept page dossiers to promote exact scan-verified definitions, field-language passages, equations, and diagrams. |
| Theme evidence routing | Done as generated layer, repeating for verification | Use the theme evidence atlas to promote strongest source passages into canonical concept, glossary, comparison, and hidden-gem pages after scan review. |
| Mathematics and equations | Started | Scan-verify the first twelve-equation canon and expand each page with exact page anchors. |
| Diagram archive | Started | Review AC and transient crops, then refine source-keyed redraw sheets and add surge, line, hysteresis, and apparatus figures. |
| Glossary | Started | Scan-verify promoted term passages and continue with dielectric, hysteresis, and transmission-line language. |
| Comparisons | Started | Build side-by-side Steinmetz, modern EE, Tesla-era, and interpretive readings only where the source supports it. |
| Interactive tools | Started | Wave, AC waveform/harmonics, impedance, phasor/symbolic-form, power-factor, hysteresis-loss, transient RLC response, and lightning/surge traveling-wave tools are public. |
| Quality control | Repeating | Never promote candidate OCR or interpretation without visible labels and verification notes. |
Website Section Status
Section titled “Website Section Status”| Section | Status |
|---|---|
| Home | Done |
| Who Was Steinmetz? | Done, redesigned with a visual profile, biographical spine, technical legacy map, and reader routes |
| Why Steinmetz Matters | Done |
| Source Library | Done, expanding, with original-source reader blocks, generated book coverage pages, generated source-text browser pages, generated chapter workbench pages, and generated concept concordance pages |
| Bibliography Intake | Started |
| Patent Register | Started, incomplete by design until authority-pass work is done |
| Book-by-Book Deep Decoding | Started, expanded with eight additional source-grounded chapter, section, and report pages plus generated full book coverage and text-section coverage |
| Deep-Decoding Promotion Queue | Started; public roadmap page and JSON export now rank source sections for the next curated deep-reading passes |
| Concept Encyclopedia | Started, with generated all-corpus concept concordance support and source-grounded dossier sections across 22 curated pages |
| Mathematics of Steinmetz | Started |
| Diagram Archive | Started |
| Steinmetz vs Modern Electrical Engineering | Started |
| Steinmetz and Tesla-Era Electrical Science | Started |
| Ether-Field Interpretive Reading Guide | Started |
| Hidden Gems Index | Started |
| Glossary of Forgotten Electrical Language | Started |
| Research Questions | Started |
| Interactive Tools | Started, with site-wide reader controls and diagram lightbox support |
| Mobile Readiness Audit | Started; public roadmap page and JSON export now track responsive CSS gates and high-risk generated page families for phone review |
| Data Pipeline | Started; PDF text extraction, source-specific parsers, generated book coverage/source-text/workbench/concordance pages, concept page dossiers, completion audit, scholarly exports, mobile readiness audit, canonical verification queues, claim attribution, notation/provenance/schema/review-packet ledgers, annotation, crosslink, evidence ledger, and chapter atlas indexes now generate |
Expert Additions
Section titled “Expert Additions”These workstreams were added after the original master plan because they are necessary for a truly definitive public research archive:
| Workstream | Status |
|---|---|
| Critical-edition editorial policy | Started; public policy page added |
| Citation and export system | Started; CITATION.cff, BibTeX, CSL JSON, citation index, and public data manifest generate |
| Canonical review workflow | Started; public workflow and issue templates added |
| Deep-decoding promotion queue | Started; generated queue turns broad corpus coverage into source-balanced editorial targets |
| Concept page depth dossiers | Started; generated evidence sections now prevent curated concept pages from remaining thin while preserving candidate/verification labels |
| Mathematical errata and notation ledger | Started; generated notation ledger maps the first equation canon |
| Diagram provenance ledger | Started; generated ledger maps original crops and modern redraws |
| Edition comparison layer | Started; generated edition-collation queue added |
| Patent-to-theory bridge | Started; generated bridge links seeded patents to concept and diagram targets |
| Accessibility and reading-quality audit | Started; generated structural audit and manual review gates added |
| Mobile readiness audit | Started; generated structural CSS gates and page-risk queue added for small-screen publication review |
| Research API and data export docs | Started through public data manifest and JSON exports |
| Canonical verification workbench | Started; equation OCR snippets, original scan crop cards, and patent authority-review cards are public |
| Claim attribution and source isolation | Started; source facts, candidates, translations, diagrams, patents, and future interpretive readings now have separate ledger layers |
| Contributor governance and expert review packets | Started with contribution rules, source/equation/diagram review templates, expert review packet template, and generated packet page |
Near-Term Work Queue
Section titled “Near-Term Work Queue”- Verify the RLI spectrum table and Figs. 14, 15, 18, and 19 against scans.
- Verify the AC symbolic-method passages: rectangular components,
j,j^2 = -1, and quarter-period rotation. - Verify impedance, reactance, admittance, conductance, susceptance, and power-factor language in AC.
- Review the promoted AC Chapter V figure crops and refine the symbolic-method redraw sheet.
- Verify transient permanent/transient terms, RLC oscillation, critical resistance, and decrement.
- Review the promoted transient figure crops and refine the condenser-response redraw sheet.
- Scan-verify and deepen the first twelve-equation canon.
- Work through the generated canonical verification workbench, starting with equation snippets, AC/RLI/transient crop cards, and patent authority PDFs.
- Scan-verify promoted glossary pages and expand dielectric, hysteresis, and transmission-line terminology.
- Refine annotation and crosslink JSON outputs with page maps, confidence levels, and curated canonical links.
- Add advanced interactive tools: multi-section surge lattice diagram, vector phasor animation, and source-specific worked calculators.
- Scan-verify the Commonwealth Edison report sections, crop Appendix Figure 1, and promote corrected synchronizing-power equations.
- Use the generated book coverage atlas, source-text browser, chapter workbench, concept concordance, and concept page dossiers to promote the next batch of chapter-by-chapter and concept-by-concept deep readings.
- Use the deep-decoding promotion queue to choose the next source-balanced batch of curated pages, beginning with the highest-value math, transient, field-language, and apparatus sections.
- Acquire and process high-priority bibliography intake sources, beginning with the hysteresis, complex quantities, general circuit equations, magnetic forces, and first-edition variant works.
- Complete the Steinmetz patent authority pass, download patent PDFs/drawings, and create one verified patent page per patent.
- Use the public citation/data exports, notation ledger, diagram provenance ledger, schema reference, verification workbench, claim attribution ledger, and expert review packets to support external review, dataset reuse, and future multi-author source isolation.
- Use the mobile readiness audit to manually inspect high-risk generated pages at 360px, 430px, 768px, and desktop widths before publication pushes.
- Add the remaining world-class apparatus: formal JSON schemas, deeper accessibility testing, completed edition collation, verified patent dossiers, and named release publication notes.
Future Scope
Section titled “Future Scope”The archive may later expand into a wider electrical-science codex including Nikola Tesla, Eric Dollard, Walter Russell, and other researchers. That wider design should keep Steinmetz as a distinct source domain and use comparison pages instead of blending different authors into one voice.
The architecture note is public at Future Codex Architecture. It is recorded now so future expansion does not blur Steinmetz-first source work.