{
 "checked_on": "2026-10-27",
 "assessment": "Feasible as source-bounded institutional cohorts; not as automatic completion of every position-year. The current plan had good admission boundaries but underused existing structured sources, did not audit editions deeply enough, and did not model multiple meanings of conventus.",
 "chosen_course": "Reuse and verify structured data first; collate role-specific modern fasti; verify cited documents; apply targeted OCR only for remaining evidence gaps. Review dates and jurisdiction versions before chronology/map admission.",
 "completion_definition": "This reassessment implements audited discovery, candidate separation, jurisdiction context, typed conventus cases and a source-checked pilot. Full imperial rosters, full monograph extraction and specialist adjudication remain staged work.",
 "strategies": [
  {
   "method": "Structured PIR snapshot + live addenda",
   "decision": "preferred discovery backbone",
   "reason": "Hash-matched local copy enables reproducible full-cohort searches. Live identity/addenda are checked selectively; printed articles and role chronology still need specialist collation.",
   "url": "https://github.com/telota/PIR/tree/public",
   "checked_scope": "Repository blob and six live identity/addendum samples checked; no newer repository dataset found."
  },
  {
   "method": "Office-specific modern fasti and prosopographies",
   "decision": "preferred chronology and role adjudication",
   "reason": "Use Piso for Dacia, Thomasson for governors, Demougin/PME/Pflaum for equestrian careers, Rüpke for priesthoods. Their office and period boundaries differ; none replaces every other authority.",
   "url": "https://cil.bbaw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Das_CIL/Livret_2025-2.pdf",
   "checked_scope": "Official 2025 bibliography checked for the reference family; not access to all cited books."
  },
  {
   "method": "EDH structured dump / specific record",
   "decision": "preferred epigraphic verification where in scope",
   "reason": "Join inscription identifiers and revised texts; distinguish monument from its many editions. Pin bytes/commit instead of treating README daily-export wording as current freshness.",
   "url": "https://github.com/epigraphic-database-heidelberg/data",
   "checked_scope": "Repository inscriptions commit checked: 8351baec66a6363893e42e36357f35d07ffe10cd, 2021-12-15. Current live-record freshness not established."
  },
  {
   "method": "Papyri.info / EpiDoc with editorial history",
   "decision": "preferred papyrological verification",
   "reason": "Preserve HGV dates, DDbDP textual variants, TM IDs and edition dependencies separately. Read current text and corrections before geographic admission.",
   "url": "https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.yale;1;61",
   "checked_scope": "Historical-edition page and 2026 correction history read; source endpoint returned an HTML page, not inspectable current XML. Primary text remains unresolved."
  },
  {
   "method": "EDR/Italia Epigrafica Digitale",
   "decision": "targeted Italian epigraphic review",
   "reason": "Use signed/dated records and images for Italy; respect EDR/EDB corpus boundaries. Public browse access alone does not imply a bulk API or a bulk reuse licence.",
   "url": "https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/italia_epigrafica_digitale/about",
   "checked_scope": "Project publication description checked. No bulk endpoint integrated."
  },
  {
   "method": "Thomasson Laterculi I ex parte retractatum (2009)",
   "decision": "targeted update lead",
   "reason": "A partial revision/addenda resource; locate lawful full text and check relevant entries before replacing older governor dates.",
   "url": "https://bibpap.be/BP_enl/?n=2009-0834",
   "checked_scope": "Bibliographic metadata checked; primary full text access unresolved."
  },
  {
   "method": "PPRET inscriptions",
   "decision": "late-antique specialist pilot",
   "reason": "The 2026 introduction describes 98 inscriptions of 284–395, including 30 absent from PLRE I. This is a publication-specific corpus, not a complete late-antique fasti.",
   "url": "https://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Ppret-inscriptions-RPL-6-1.pdf",
   "checked_scope": "Introduction checked; corpus export not ingested or treated as broader catalogue date coverage."
  },
  {
   "method": "PIR¹ scans + targeted OCR",
   "decision": "fallback and historiographical comparison",
   "reason": "Use first-edition numbers and retain OCR/raw image distinction. Prefer a usable duplicate scan, then OCR only targeted missing entries. Never bulk-admit names or dates from noisy OCR.",
   "url": "https://pir.bbaw.de/",
   "checked_scope": "Supplied title pages inspected; all three 1938-labelled files are first-edition material. Four sampled bodies have text, two do not."
  },
  {
   "method": "General web search and language-model extraction",
   "decision": "leads only",
   "reason": "Useful for discovering bibliography and candidate passages. Every claim still needs a recoverable source passage. Frequency and model confidence do not establish completeness or factual certainty.",
   "url": "https://pir.bbaw.de/",
   "checked_scope": "No language-model-only claim admitted."
  },
  {
   "method": "Haensch 1997 + later author studies",
   "decision": "spatial context with temporal review",
   "reason": "Distinguish governor seat, fiscal centre, council meeting place and judicial activity. Later work is a revision lead, not an automatic correction of every table cell.",
   "url": "https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/REVHISTO/en/article/view/3574",
   "checked_scope": "1997 Appendix IX read; later article abstract checked. Full later monograph-wide reconciliation pending."
  }
 ],
 "stages": [
  {
   "id": "source-audit",
   "status": "implemented",
   "batch": "17 files + 8 further local file leads",
   "title": "Establish editions and usable access",
   "action": "Verify supplied files against title pages and body probes; retain checksums, printed/PDF page mappings and bibliographic dependency groups. Keep original names. Three 1938-labelled files are first-edition material; two wrapper-only scans need body OCR. Further local works are access leads only.",
   "acceptance": "Every admitted source has a checked edition and exact passage; duplicate scans never count as independent evidence.",
   "depends_on": []
  },
  {
   "id": "discovery",
   "status": "implemented",
   "batch": "entire 15,061-record local PIR snapshot",
   "title": "Generate reviewable candidates",
   "action": "Extract narrow role abbreviations within semicolon-delimited career/occupation clauses. Preserve offsets and fragment hashes, unknown dates, qualified names and unresolved jurisdictions. Keep complete clauses and bibliographic context in private evidence. Publish candidate metadata separately from admitted claims.",
   "acceptance": "No candidate enters fasti automatically; no origin/lifespan date is borrowed, no consul date fills an undated proconsulship, and changing source bytes invalidates the receipt. Recall outside recognised forms remains explicitly unmeasured.",
   "depends_on": [
    "source-audit"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "pilot",
   "status": "implemented",
   "batch": "one new governor + five conventus case studies",
   "title": "Verify a cross-source pilot",
   "action": "Admit C. Iulius Severus, proconsul of Asia 152/153, with the article’s explicit PIR² I 573 identification. Keep PIR’s undated Asia clause separate from its circa-139 consulship. Record the assize/presence distinction and uncertain district grouping.",
   "acceptance": "Source-local identity supports a specific authority key; exact passage and date basis are visible. Article and PIR citing it count as one dating argument.",
   "depends_on": [
    "discovery"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "consular",
   "status": "partly-implemented",
   "batch": "97–120 CE; then consecutive 25-year batches to 235",
   "title": "Extend the chronological backbone",
   "action": "Check Degrassi pages against images and later revised fasti, with ordinary/suffect roles, iteration and competing readings retained. Revisit 13 CE and 23 BCE independently. Use CIL fasti, military diplomas and annual acta for suffects; missing suffects have no fixed annual denominator. Continuation checked 2026-10-28: ordinary headings 97–105 CE transcribed from Degrassi pp. 29–31 with source-page receipts and selected later checks. Continue later years in bounded source batches; suffects and ordinary/suffect role disputes require separate admission.",
   "acceptance": "All names, roles and year headings in each batch checked; exact source receipts and independent correction search logged. Claims of completeness name the edition and scope, never all historical office-holders.",
   "depends_on": [
    "source-audit"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "governor-cohorts",
   "status": "partly-implemented",
   "batch": "Asia 130–170; Syria 50–80; Dacia 106–180, separately",
   "title": "Build governor fasti by office and jurisdiction version",
   "action": "Start from existing Magalia claims plus PIR candidates. Collate Thomasson/Piso and regional studies; locate cited inscriptions in revised digital editions and images where available. Adjudicate legatus Augusti, proconsul, praefectus and procurator separately; never classify all procurators as governors. Continuation: Dacia Porolissensis selected attestations are now admitted as separate source records with unresolved period geometry; complete tenures remain unadjudicated.",
   "acceptance": "Each admitted row has identity, exact office title, jurisdiction version or unresolved label, date basis and dependency group. First/last attestation is not an office endpoint. All conflicting dates persist as alternatives.",
   "depends_on": [
    "pilot"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "dacia-equestrians",
   "status": "partly-implemented",
   "batch": "Piso II entries 73–76: seven diploma attestations and one source-qualified building-inscription office record",
   "title": "Exploit an accessible missing source",
   "action": "Selected printed 111–123 inspected. Quintilianus CIL III 836 is admitted under the source-reported 157 with explicit modern rank/jurisdiction attribution. A 2025 anonymous diploma was checked and does not supply a named 155/156 attestation. Continue regional entries and independent documents without converting proposals or first/last attestations into tenure.",
   "acceptance": "Do not infer title date/author/editor from the filename; each extracted entry is image-checked and rank-classified. Targeted OCR is used only where text fails.",
   "depends_on": [
    "source-audit"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "priestly",
   "status": "partly-implemented",
   "batch": "one college or one Tarraco priestly index block at a time",
   "title": "Fill priestly fasti from appropriate sources",
   "action": "Obtain the annual lists/biographies absent from the local Rüpke extract. For Hispania, inspect CIL II²/14 indices and targeted entries, Étienne’s conventus-cult extract and later cult studies. Separate municipal, conventus and provincial priesthoods; distinguish Augustales, actual priesthoods and ancillary personnel. Cycle continuation adds source-local Judaean high-priest removal and appointments from Josephus; this institution remains distinct from Roman colleges and does not fill the missing Rüpke annual rosters. Source batch reviewed 2026-10-29: Tacitus 3.58/3.71 links Maluginensis’ priestly attestation to a provincial request and refusal, with explicit consular-frame dating. No actual Asian governorship, full priestly term or original enactment year is inferred.",
   "acceptance": "Exact title and institutional level are source-supported; membership, inauguration and last attestation have separate claims. Reconstructed calator patrons remain hypotheses. No unexamined CIL title becomes a named priestly roster.",
   "depends_on": [
    "source-audit"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "jurisdictions",
   "status": "partly-implemented",
   "batch": "51 Haensch rows; 47 inherited coordinate matches",
   "title": "Version seats, districts and spatial relations",
   "action": "Use checked Appendix IX as an undated 1997 synthesis. Add province creation/reform, seat validity and district membership from separately read passages and later Haensch studies. A new projection preserves raw analytic wording and separates polarity from uncertainty; kaum is qualified negative.",
   "acceptance": "No ancient interval is inferred from the book date, no unlocated seat gets coordinates, and presence/assize/findspot/seat roles remain distinct. Any polygon has a source, valid period, uncertainty and revision receipt.",
   "depends_on": [
    "source-audit"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "conventus",
   "status": "partly-implemented",
   "batch": "Asia/Aristides; Egypt/P.Yale I 61; Tarraconensis",
   "title": "Model institutions and events before mapping them",
   "action": "Keep session, judicial district, resident association, cult institution and editorial corpus area distinct. Record ordered episodes without drawing a known travel path. Reconcile Lewis’s Arsinoe wording with BL 7.282/BL 8.514 and the March 2026 papyri.info correction; current primary text still needs retrieval/inspection.",
   "acceptance": "Each assize claim has evidence for judicial activity, not mere presence. Unknown group membership and irregularity remain explicit; no universal annual circuit is inferred from one province.",
   "depends_on": [
    "pilot",
    "jurisdictions"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "late-antique",
   "status": "planned-access-work",
   "batch": "235–305 PIR overlap; 284–395 PPRET pilot; later cohorts separately",
   "title": "Use period-specific authorities",
   "action": "For late antiquity obtain and inspect PLRE and Consuls of the Later Roman Empire. PPRET’s 2026 introduction describes a bounded set of prefectural inscriptions, not all governors. Track changing office structures, East/West recognition and post-consular dating.",
   "acceptance": "Authority scope, source revision and edition dependencies are declared; no generic PIR endpoint is extended beyond its coverage and no prefectural sample represents every governor.",
   "depends_on": [
    "consular",
    "governor-cohorts"
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "quality",
   "status": "implemented-and-ongoing",
   "batch": "each admitted batch and each release",
   "title": "Audit selection bias and reproducibility",
   "action": "Report source coverage, extraction success, identity/date/role disputes and source dependencies separately. Compare a manually checked positive/negative sample before widening extraction rules. Test date borrowing, negative evidence, same-name collisions, chronology seams and no-script/mobile access.",
   "acceptance": "Regression gates and source hashes pass; measured extraction precision/recall is reported only when a declared gold sample exists. No automated score substitutes for historical adjudication.",
   "depends_on": [
    "discovery"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "work_order": [
  "source-audit",
  "discovery",
  "pilot",
  "consular",
  "governor-cohorts",
  "dacia-equestrians",
  "priestly",
  "jurisdictions",
  "conventus",
  "late-antique",
  "quality"
 ],
 "gap_vocabulary": [
  "not-researched",
  "source-access-missing",
  "source-section-missing",
  "text-extraction-failed",
  "identity-disputed",
  "office-role-disputed",
  "date-disputed",
  "unattested-in-defined-corpus",
  "explicit-vacancy-source-required"
 ],
 "rules": [
  "Unknown is not vacant.",
  "Every date is linked to its own office and source argument.",
  "Documents, editions, scans and database records are separate entities.",
  "Agreement of dependent sources is not independent corroboration.",
  "One governor may hold several commands; one province may change name/scope.",
  "An attestation sequence gives ordering, not a measured journey."
 ],
 "continuation_checked_on": "2026-10-28",
 "continuation_plan": "/matrix-hub/prosopography/expansion-plan.html"
}