Description

Update: I’m now splitting the UFO release into a searchable media index, photos, drawings, diagrams, maps, and newspaper clippings

Go to the console click on Media and will find the library I am looking for help updating.

The last update made the data search able but I still felt like it was too hard to get to the images in the documents.

So the next problem I’m working on is that the release is not just text. A lot of the interesting material is buried visually inside PDFs: photographs, hand drawings, newspaper clippings, diagrams, maps, photocopied negatives, sensor stills, and annotated pages.

If those stay trapped inside page scans, they are hard to find, hard to review, and basically invisible to search.

So I added a MEDIA view and a volunteer media job.

Current direction:

* split visual material out from the source pages
* classify it by type: photograph, hand drawing, newspaper clipping, map, diagram, etc.
* keep every media item tied back to the original record and page
* make the visual material filterable by event, agency, title, description, and media type
* let volunteers review visual pages and add simple human-readable titles/context
* keep this separate from claim-making; the point is source access and reviewability

This matters because some of the most useful context is not in clean typed text. It is in old scans, drawings, clippings, photocopies, annotations, and images embedded inside documents.

The goal is to make those items reachable directly instead of forcing people to dig through hundreds or thousands of PDF pages manually.

Live site:
https://rizzleroc.github.io/pursue-console/ (https://rizzleroc.github.io/pursue-console/)

Repo:
https://github.com/rizzleroc/pursue-console (https://github.com/rizzleroc/pursue-console)

The project still needs help with OCR, review, missing records, source checking, and now visual/media indexing. You do not need to be a developer to help. A useful contribution can be as simple as opening a page image, identifying what visual material is on it, and adding a short title/context note.

The larger goal is still the same: make the official source material easier to search, compare, audit, and review from the primary documents.