World-Class Completion Criteria
Purpose
Section titled “Purpose”This page adds the expert finishing layer beyond the original build plan. The archive should not merely become large; it should become trustworthy, navigable, mathematically faithful, historically careful, and pleasant enough to use for years.
The standard is simple: a serious researcher should be able to arrive with a question, find the original source, inspect the evidence, understand the math, compare interpretations, and leave knowing which claims are verified and which still need work.
The first public controls for this standard are now live: citation/data exports, editorial policy, canonical review workflow, notation ledger, diagram provenance ledger, schema reference, expert review packets, release levels, accessibility audit, edition comparison, and patent-to-theory bridge. They do not finish the scholarship by themselves; they make the remaining scholarship visible and repeatable.
Final Scholarly Gates
Section titled “Final Scholarly Gates”| Gate | Definition Of Done |
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| Critical source custody | Every priority source has raw file custody, public source link, edition metadata, checksums, OCR status, and a page-map note. |
| Corrected text edition | High-value chapters have corrected text beside OCR, with uncertain readings marked rather than silently normalized. |
| Mathematical verification | Canonical equations preserve Steinmetz notation, show variable meanings, modern equivalents, derivations, units, and worked examples. |
| Diagram authority | Major diagrams include original crop, crop manifest, page reference, modern redraw, annotations, and linked equations/concepts. |
| Concept traceability | Every mature concept page lists exact source appearances and separates original wording, modern engineering, history, and interpretation. |
| Patent authority | Steinmetz patent pages are checked against patent authority records, include drawings/PDFs where available, and link claims to apparatus concepts. |
| Interpretive discipline | Ether-field, Wheeler-style, Tesla-era, and speculative readings are useful but visibly labeled and never blended into Steinmetz’s explicit claims. |
| Review status transparency | Every source, equation, quote, diagram, and concept carries a status: candidate, source-located, scan-verified, canonical, or needs review. |
Expert Additions Beyond The Original Plan
Section titled “Expert Additions Beyond The Original Plan”These workstreams were not explicit enough in the first charter, but they are needed for a genuinely world-class resource.
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Editorial policy and critical-edition rules
Define how OCR correction, bracketed uncertainty, silently corrected punctuation, page breaks, figure labels, and spelling variants are handled. -
Citation and export system
Add BibTeX, CSL JSON, source manifests, stable page IDs, and recommended citation text for every book, paper, patent, figure, and equation page. -
Canonical review workflow
Add a repeatable promotion path from candidate extraction to source-located claim, scan-verified passage, canonical explanation, and peer review. -
Mathematical errata and notation ledger
Track original notation, OCR math failures, corrected formulas, dimensional checks, modern equivalents, and places where later editions differ. -
Diagram provenance ledger
Record every crop box, source page, checksum, redraw source, annotation layer, and concept/equation linkage. -
Edition comparison layer
When multiple editions exist, compare chapter numbering, revised equations, moved figures, changed notation, and editorial additions. -
Patent-to-theory bridge
Connect patents to the theoretical books: hysteresis motors to hysteresis theory, regulators to AC apparatus, lightning protection to surge theory. -
Accessibility and reading-quality audit
Check contrast, keyboard navigation, mobile layout, image alt text, table overflow, math readability, and source-only mode across the whole site. -
Research API and data export
Publish structured JSON indexes in a documented way so outside researchers can reuse concepts, equations, figures, quotes, and source maps. -
Contributor governance
Add contribution guidelines, review templates, issue templates, and claim-review standards so the archive can grow without lowering rigor. -
Independent expert review packets
Create small review bundles for electrical engineers, historians, physicists, and alternative-field researchers, each focused on verifiable claims. -
Definitive release levels
Publish named releases: foundation release, source coverage release, scan verification release, equation canon release, diagram canon release, and definitive Steinmetz release.
What Complete Means
Section titled “What Complete Means”Complete does not mean every possible interpretation has been exhausted. It means the archive has made the path from source to understanding unusually clear.
A mature Steinmetz page should answer:
- What did Steinmetz explicitly say?
- Where exactly did he say it?
- What notation did he use?
- What does the math mean?
- What would a modern electrical engineer call it?
- What historical problem was he addressing?
- What diagrams or apparatus make it concrete?
- What is still used today?
- What has been renamed, abstracted, simplified, or forgotten?
- What interpretive readings are possible, and what remains speculative?
Completion Ethic
Section titled “Completion Ethic”The archive should be generous without being gullible, rigorous without being sterile, and open-minded without becoming careless. That is the standard Steinmetz deserves.