Widening the search deliberately
The 19 May research expansion moved discovery beyond a single channel. A repository register organised search sources by scope, access, full-text availability and rights considerations. This made the search process inspectable: a promising catalogue was useful for different reasons from a collection offering complete page images.
The strategic plan separated author-led searches, thematic discovery across digitised material and specialist archival research. These were planned routes with different practical requirements, not interchangeable search boxes.
Evidence before progression
The process required an identifiable path to the complete text, recorded provenance and a plausible rights position before a work progressed beyond initial discovery. A catalogue description could start a trail, but could not replace the material itself.
The plan also described an AI-assisted layer for relevance screening and text work. Its place was to support discovery and organisation, with people reviewing the results. A proposed tool or workflow was not evidence that a bulk-harvesting programme had already run.
Keeping capacity separate from intention
The session left access arrangements and some research channels unresolved. The accurate account is therefore that the search architecture and supporting records were created, not that every proposed channel became operational that day.
The lasting technical decision was to make discovery repeatable. Recording where searches can happen, what each source offers and which checks must follow provides a better foundation than accumulating promising links without a route to verification.
Evidence for this entry
This account is grounded in project records. Internal research and operational files are not published here.
What the records support
- Full-text path, rights position and provenance are separate checks; planned search waves are not all completed.
- Repository register and research architecture created; unresolved access/outreach remains pending.