History
178 out of 178 completedVolume I: all 28 chapters supplied. Volume II: all 150 chapters supplied, indexed, summarised, and mapped by section.
LIVING ARCHIVE STATUS
What is complete, what changed, and what comes next
This register makes the archive’s developing scope explicit. Both the 178-chapter historical programme and the 172-idea philosophical programme are complete, and the 14 September integrity pass adds durable bilingual, accessibility, indexing, parity, and post-deployment safeguards around release 2026.09.
Parallel Philosophy
172 out of 172 completedVolume I: all 72 bilingual chapters supplied. Volume II: all 100 Maithili chapters supplied, with English readings throughout.
Scholarly publication layer
Permanent records · citations · datasets · PWAStable URLs, citation exports, evidence labels, structured metadata, comparison, research-data releases, accessibility/method/rights statements, and expanded discovery are generated from the source corpus on every build.
Bilingual release integrity
One shared interface · route-specific metadata · fail-closed publicationThe Maithili and English entry routes share one UI component so their design cannot drift. CI now verifies reciprocal language metadata, accessibility controls, 41-language translation, Listen/Stop, favicon/title parity, all 178 History pages, and the editorial/source gates that prevent unverified Literature, Panji, or classical Philosophy detail publication.
CHANGELOG
Recent archive changes
Completed the bilingual release-integrity pass: root/English title and favicon parity, route-specific language and reciprocal hreflang metadata, current History completion wording, synchronized release dates, crawler-ready sitemap alternates, mirror/accessibility CI guards, and a post-deployment live smoke test.
Formalized the WCAG 2.2 AA-oriented audit process. Automated keyboard/focus, reduced-motion, translation, Listen/Stop, assistive-tool and parity checks now run on every build; manual NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, TalkBack, zoom/reflow and touch-target certification remains explicitly pending until tested on the relevant devices.
Published scholarly infrastructure release 2026.09: permanent record pages, BibTeX/RIS/CSL-JSON citations, record comparison, shareable research-state URLs, structured metadata, rights and method statements, versioned JSON/CSV/NDJSON/GeoJSON downloads with checksums, expanded sitemap/robots discovery, and offline/PWA support.
Added a formal WCAG 2.2 AA-oriented accessibility statement, multilingual/diacritic-tolerant permanent-record search, explicit machine-translation warning, and CI checks for the generated scholarly export.
Completed the 172-idea Parallel Philosophy archive and replaced Multiscript Reader machine text with supplied Maithili for both volumes wherever bilingual source text is available.
Completed the history archive: added source-derived summaries and section maps for all supplied Volume II Chapters 87–150, bringing the programme to 178 out of 178 completed chapters.
Reframed the homepage around four research doors; added federated search, graph facets, map-context warning, stable source records, and keyboard improvements.
Added the first bundled Maithili readings and retained Tirhuta conversion. These were superseded by supplied bilingual source text on 6 September.
ROADMAP
Next source-controlled additions
- Add approved public facsimiles or stable edition links to source records where publication rights permit.
- Complete and record the manual assistive-technology matrix: keyboard-only use; NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver and TalkBack; 200–400% zoom; 320px reflow; contrast; reduced motion; and touch-target testing. Automated checks support this process but do not substitute for manual WCAG certification.
- Add georeferenced historical layers only where source-controlled boundary geometries become defensible; modern orientation points must not be mistaken for reconstructed frontiers.