Release closure
Genocide Atlas v1 is a sourced GIS system, not a loose collection of maps.
The Genocide Atlas v1 is considered complete when the core event map, deportation graph, camp system, population baselines, source registry, provenance table, review queues, and separated context layers are visible, source-linked, and explicitly marked by confidence and review status.
Release tracks v1.0-release-candidate / updated 2026-05-09
| Track | Priority | Status | Next action |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core event atlas Armenian, Greek, and Assyrian/Seyfo seed events with group, type, date/year, coordinates, source fields, and confidence. | P0 | release candidate | Freeze schema and use provenance/review queues for all future promotions. |
| Armenian chronology and AGMI anchors AGMI-linked Armenian chronology records and casualty anchors. | P0 | release candidate | Connect each promoted chronology row to provenance and place authority review. |
| Deportation graph topology Origins, transit hubs, route segments, camps, killing nodes, and terminal desert zones. | P0 | release candidate | Upgrade source links from target extraction rows to specific document/page references. |
| Camp system Aleppo, Meskene, Ras al-Ayn, Deir ez-Zor, grouped killing estimates, and regional proxy nodes. | P0 | release candidate | Replace review geometries with sourced exact geometry: Aleppo subsites, Pap/Meskene split, Ras al-Ayn boundary/route, Deir ez-Zor subzones, and Tipsi/Apuharrar/Hamam toponym resolution. |
| Demographic baselines Ottoman, Patriarchate, Kevorkian, and working population/loss comparison rows. | P0 | release candidate | Add citation page/edition fields for every source comparison row. |
| Guerguerian document metadata Public Clark/Guerguerian metadata, document places, actor graph, and record dossiers. | P0 | in progress | Promote only records with clear document-place-event relationship into the core atlas. |
| Historical place authority Canonical gazetteer for Ottoman, Armenian, Greek, Assyrian, modern names, admin hierarchy, coordinates, confidence. | P0 | normalization queue ready | Resolve the remaining P0 Greek route endpoints and camp-system proxy sites before treating v1 geography as stable. |
| Greek genocide layer GGRC massacres and deportations, route arrows, sources, years, notes. | P1 | qa matrix ready | Resolve the remaining 292 Greek P0 coordinate rows and decode source-code/page references against the GGRC bibliography. |
| Assyrian/Seyfo layer Seyfo/Assyrian events, refugee nodes, testimony archives, and map references. | P1 | acquisition schema ready | Add page/item-level citation detail for Hakkari, Diyarbekir, Urmia, and Tur Abdin before promoting any Assyrian/Seyfo record beyond seed status. |
| Oral history and testimony metadata USC VHA, Zoryan/AUA, UCLA/Seyfo, interview birthplace, language, route, archive link, access limits. | P1 | schema ready | Add Zoryan/AUA catalog schema and keep testimony content out unless licensed or quoted within limits. |
| Economic loss layer Subsoil and industrial losses, mines, resource fields, industrial assets, noncommercial source constraints. | P1 | mapped seed | Keep visible in the atlas as economic context, not as event evidence. |
| Church losses Arak29/Data Catalog Armenia church/priest/location/fate table based on 1912-1913 inventory and Teodik. | P1 | acquisition ready | Import only table metadata with rights note and source citation. |
| Houshamadyan cultural memory Pre-1915 settlements, towns, villages, social memory, schools, churches, family names, maps, photos. | P1 | separated context | Do not mix with event claims unless a record explicitly documents violence/deportation/loss. |
| RAA / VirtualANI heritage atlas Monuments, churches, monasteries, photos, condition evidence, long-duration destruction. | P1 | separated context | Continue separately after Genocide Atlas v1 is closed. |
| Source expansion registry Source families, licenses, readiness, priority, next action, and intended atlas layer. | P0 | active | Update after every new source family is accepted or rejected. |
| Public methodology and limitations Method statement explaining what the atlas is, what it is not, and how confidence/review statuses work. | P0 | implemented by this page | Use this page as the closure checklist for Genocide Atlas v1. |
Public atlas
02 Keep the main map as the integrated view.
The main atlas remains the public surface: events, documents, demography, routes, camps, economic loss, and optional cultural context.
Topology
03 Use the deportation graph as the structural backbone.
Origins, transit hubs, camps, killing nodes, and terminal zones should be strengthened with document-level evidence rather than duplicated as separate maps.
Ingestion queue
03A All new sources go through the expansion registry.
Data Catalog Armenia, Arak29, GGRC, Seyfo/UCLA, USC VHA, Zoryan/AUA, ANI, and Guerguerian must enter through schema, license, confidence, and review fields.
Greek / Assyrian closure
03B Review non-Armenian layers through the same QA model.
The GGRC Greek corpus now has an evidence matrix, while Assyrian/Seyfo seed records have an acquisition schema and citation-upgrade queue.
Scholarly audit
04 Make every limitation visible before v1 closure.
The status matrix separates release-candidate layers, candidate citations, proxy coordinates, review geometries, and source-depth queues.
Separated context
RAA, VirtualANI, and broad Houshamadyan memory stay separate.
They remain essential, but the site must not imply that every monastery, monument, or memory page is direct 1915-1923 event evidence.