# Crowley diary faithful page transcription specification

You are transcribing one scanned physical page from a photocopy of a typewritten
transcription of J. S. Crowley's historical diaries. Produce PASS 1 only:
faithful transcription and document structure.

## Authority and scope

1. The attached current-page image is authoritative.
2. Current-page OCR is a fallible hypothesis. Correct OCR by consulting the image.
3. Neighbor context is only for detecting continuity. It must never supply text
   that is not visibly present on the current page.
4. Transcribe each visible source character as faithfully as the image allows.
   Preserve source spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization, factual errors,
   incorrect dates, archaic or offensive terminology, and historical place names.
5. Do not improve, modernize, sanitize, silently correct, or complete the source.
6. Do not transcribe scan noise, binder holes, shadows, or page damage as text.
7. If no defensible reading is visible, use an `illegible` node. Never guess merely
   to avoid an uncertainty.

## Semantic structure first

Logical document blocks are the primary structure. Identify ordered headings,
standalone text, diary entries, letters, lists, tables/ledgers, annotations, gap
notices, separators, and non-textual graphical features. A diary entry or letter owns ordered semantic content
parts. Physical source lines are nested inside those blocks or parts only to
preserve diplomatic lineation, hyphenation, and evidence. Do not treat each
physical line as an independent document block.

Use a table only where columns or cell relationships are visibly meaningful. Use
a list for sequential items without a reliable column relationship. Do not infer
numeric values or repair arithmetic.

## Graphical and non-textual source features

A handwritten drawing, doodle, diagram, symbol, or other non-textual feature
that cannot meaningfully be transcribed as text must use a
`graphical_feature` block. Do not invent words for it. Record its medium,
placement, neutral observational description, page-image region when reasonably
identifiable, and related nearby block IDs when the relationship is visible.
Keep both continuation declarations `no`; graphical marks are not textual
cross-page continuations. A label that is itself readable text remains an
annotation block or part, with a related graphical-feature block for the
non-textual strokes. Descriptions must be observational, such as “Small
handwritten mark beneath the diary entry,” never speculative historical
interpretation. If a reliable bounding box cannot be supplied, use `region:
null`; do not guess coordinates.

## Physical source lines

Transcribe every visible physical text line in order. Divide each line into inline
segments only where an intervention or uncertainty requires it. Do not preserve
indentation with runs of spaces; semantic blocks, table cells, and list labels
represent layout.

For `line_end`:

- `block_end`: the logical text represented by this line collection ends here.
- `no_hyphen`: the text continues on another visible source line with no printed
  terminal hyphen; a reading renderer should join with a space.
- `hyphen_word_break`: a printed terminal hyphen exists only because a word wraps;
  omit the hyphen when joining the reading text.
- `hyphen_lexical`: a printed terminal hyphen is intentional and remains when the
  reading text is joined.
- `hyphen_uncertain`: a printed terminal hyphen is visible but its function cannot
  be determined confidently.

Do not put the terminal source hyphen itself inside the preceding text segment
when using one of the three hyphen line-end values.

Use a hyphen line-end value only when a terminal hyphen is visibly printed. Do
not add a line-end hyphen merely because a sentence, list item, or phrase
continues on the next physical line. Preserve internal source hyphens such as
`nice-pleasant` even when they appear unconventional.

## Inline distinctions

- `text`: clearly visible source text.
- `unclear`: a visible but uncertain reading. Give the best reading when possible
  and list genuinely plausible alternatives.
- `illegible`: text is present but no defensible reading can be supplied.
- `addition`: visibly added text, recording whether it is handwritten or
  typewritten and its placement.
- `deletion`: visibly cancelled text. Preserve a reading when still legible; do
  not include it in ordinary reading text. If the cancellation is visible but
  its underlying text is not defensibly readable, keep `type: deletion`, use a
  null reading, no invented alternatives, and `confidence: unreadable`.
- `correction`: an original and replacement are visibly related. Preserve both;
  do not decide that the replacement is historically true.

Confidence vocabulary:

- `high`: plainly legible with no plausible competing reading.
- `medium`: the proposed reading is likely, with a minor visual ambiguity.
- `low`: multiple readings remain plausible.
- `unreadable`: no defensible reading can be supplied.

Never invent decimal confidence scores.

## Dates and editorial interpretation

`date_source` is a literal faithful transcription of the visible heading.
`date_normalized` is separate editorial metadata:

- `normalized`: the visible date is unambiguous and only mechanical expansion or
  ISO formatting is needed.
- `inferred`: the normalized date intentionally differs from the visible source;
  supply a concise reason and qualitative confidence.
- `ambiguous`: competing normalized dates remain plausible; leave the normalized
  value null.
- `invalid`: the visible date is invalid and no responsible inference is made;
  leave the normalized value null.
- `not_normalized`: no normalization was attempted; all normalization metadata is
  null.

For both `normalized` and `inferred`, `date_normalized`,
`normalization_confidence`, and a non-empty `normalization_reason` are mandatory.
For `inferred`, the reason must state the visible conflict. If a year visibly
printed in an image conflicts with a historically plausible chronology, preserve
the printed year in `date_source` and the physical line. Put any chronology-based
alternative only in `date_normalized` with status `inferred`. Never copy an
inferred year back into faithful text.

Never alter the faithful line text to match the normalized date. Use editorial
notes for visible source mistakes, continuity questions, or consequential layout
ambiguity. Do not perform person/place identity resolution or any other PASS 2
historical interpretation.

For a `gap_notice`, represent each available range endpoint with the same complete
date object used by diary entries: `start_date` and `end_date`. Either endpoint may
be null only when it is genuinely unavailable. If the source gives `Nov. 28.` and
the year can responsibly be supplied from the range context, preserve
`date_source: "Nov. 28."`, put the year-bearing ISO value only in
`date_normalized`, use `normalization_status: "inferred"`, and explain the year
inference. Never label a context-supplied year as merely `normalized`.

## PoC regression rules and examples

- **Literal source date:** Never substitute a historically plausible date for
  the characters visible in a heading. Faithful line text and `date_source` must
  agree with the image. Any responsible alternative belongs only in separate
  `inferred` normalization metadata.
- **Intentional internal hyphen:** Preserve a visible form such as
  `nice-pleasant` exactly. It is not a line-break artifact and must not become
  `nice pleasant` or `nicepleasant`.
- **Incomplete-looking material without survival continuity:** A sentence or
  letter that looks incomplete does not automatically continue. If the next
  surviving page does not carry it forward, do not assert `to_next: "yes"` or
  duplicate an imagined continuation. Use `uncertain` only when the boundary
  evidence itself is genuinely unresolved and explain it in an editorial note.
- **Low-confidence handwriting:** When handwriting plausibly reads `Luebo` or
  `Lukbo`, use an `unclear` segment with low confidence and both alternatives (or
  a cautious best reading plus the competing alternative). Do not promote one to
  high-confidence text. If neither is defensible, use `illegible`.
- **Cross-page cancellation is not logical continuation:** A deletion stroke or
  cancellation region may continue onto the next page even when the underlying
  dated diary entry ends on the current page. Encode the deleted text within the
  closed entry and leave the entry's `to_next` as `no`; describe the continuing
  cancellation region in an editorial note rather than linking unrelated entries.
- **Small visible marks:** Preserve ditto marks, fractions such as `1/2` or `¼`,
  superscripts, punctuation, inserted characters, abbreviated notation, ticks,
  dashes, unusual ledger marks, and other meaningful small marks. Do not expand
  ditto marks, decimalize fractions, or silently omit marks merely because OCR
  missed them.

## Page boundaries and continuity

Set page-level boundary flags from visible evidence and limited neighbor context.
Each logical block separately declares whether it continues from the previous
page or to the next page. Independent page generation cannot know the future
block ID, so `continuation.previous` and `continuation.next` must always be null.
The deterministic reconciliation step will create reciprocal links only after
both adjacent pages have been processed. Never copy neighbor text onto this page.

## Mechanical output rules

- Return one JSON object matching the supplied schema and nothing else.
- Use the current page ID in every ID: blocks `pNNN-b001`, `pNNN-b002`, and so on;
  nested parts `pNNN-b001-p001`; notes `pNNN-n001`.
- Orders and source line numbers begin at 1 and are contiguous in visual order.
- For all block and part evidence objects, output exactly:
  `{"status":"not_attempted","method":null,"ocr_word_ids":[],"bbox":null,"matched_tokens":0,"total_tokens":0}`.
- Set editorial-note responsibility to `model`.
- A genuinely blank page has `page_role: "blank"`, no blocks, both boundary flags
  `no`, and no invented separator text.

## Run-specific evidence

CURRENT SOURCE PAGE: page-167

The attached image is the sole authority for text physically present on this page.

<current_page_ocr status="non_authoritative_hypothesis">
Sunday May 18t 1898

I toek a very bad cold last night - am feeling badly from
it today - we will still eat with Mr. Pinnock today ~ the
3 services were attended will. Mr. Wooding preached in
aem- lin pom. & Mr. W. at night - good-night $& §

Monday May 28d 1898

A very rainy morning - we ate breakfast & all meals at
home our old home is now having its roof taken off and
bigins to look somewhat delapidated - but we have already
began to feel somewhat at home. I worked hard this a.m.
putting up our dish closet, it looks O.K. We are consider
ably crowded but will make out 0.K. I think - We had some
nice fresh oranges & green corn today - quite a treat. My
cold is still bad, but I work to get better - I shall heave
to make a room 6n one end of my verandah in order to have
room for things which are needed for the house. Our
Kitchen is a amall house outside. It was some distance
from the house but I have moved it and is now only a step
from the dining room - I hed a lot of men pick it up &
carry it.

Tuesday May 3 - 1898
Still fixing up around to try & live comfortable getting
things in good shape = thanks = Gold not yet well.

Wednesday May 4 ~ 1896

Still arranging things I take a look at the tearing down of
the house occasionally - to see that all goes well. It is
@ rainy day. My turn for Congo service tonight but I
deputized a boy to do it for me, as a bad hoarseness = I
thought would be the better for staying indoors & letting
Sophie read to me.

Thursday May 5 - 1898

Nothing of importance has taken place - heavy rain + we
are having heavy rain every day now - as the wet season is
drawing to a close then we will have no rain for 4 months.
Mr. Wooding held the Accra service tonight.

Friday May 6 - 1896

levely a.m., pom. bad & rainy - no school ~ Yes after the
storm & as Sophie is runing the school this week she con-
cluded not to be stopped by a little rain ~ so school went
on ~ I was called in to see a sick man and gave him some
nourishments.
</current_page_ocr>

<previous_page_context kind="validated_structured_tail" status="continuity_only_non_authoritative">
 In a few days we will be
in another house D.V. a few steps from where we now live-
we will not go to the Pool for several months yet It is
quite lonesome in Miss. quarters now

Wednesday April 27 - 1898
Wednesday we begen cleaning house - the house we are going
to live in for a few months. Sophie & the boys went over
& began work while I stayed at home & did some packing. I
had the Congo service tonight. Good-night.

Thursday April 28 - 1898
Today we began moving in earnest - carried over quite a
good many things. Ate dinner with Mr. Pinnock - had a
call from Madam Solluer also Mr. & Mrs. Wooding. Mr.
Finnock & Morgan came in. very tired - but otherwise
very well.

Friday April 29 - 1898
Still moving did not intend to sleep in the new home
tonight but Sophie decided we had better get through with
it so we had our bed trunks & moved over. We ate dinner
& supper with Mr. Pinnock - will eat dinner & breakfast
with him tomorrow D.V. after which we will be ready to
live at home again - we are now in our other home-
although we have not done moving yet. Sophie has now
retired - I notice in tonights paper that Spain has with-
drawn her troops from Cuba. U.S. will let things rest
until October. Good night. Sophie & Stephen.

Saturday April 30 - 1898
Ate Breakfast with Bro. Pinnock - dinner & supper also-
have been moving things all day. Not through yet but the
man who bought the house will begin tearing it down on
Monday. I have a few things in the house but will move
them out then.
</previous_page_context>

<next_page_context kind="raw_ocr_head" status="continuity_only_non_authoritative">
Saturday May 7 - 1898

sick man better - everything C.K. my cold better preparea~-
tions for Sabbath ~ all well - good-night. No American
mail yet.

Sunday May 8 - 1898

A lovely day - morning service by Mr. Morgan. Afternoon
service by Mr. Pinnock. Night service at A.P.C.M. by Mr.
Morgan. The 1°* time we had service in our new quarters -
Comfortably fixed once more. Good-night.

Monday May 9 - 1898

I have been at work making a little store-reom on the
veranda. Nearly completed - have been looking after a
sick man some. I cannot do much for he has a doctor & of
course the Doctor must be right if he is wrong - however
I never say a word. I over see a little also about tear-
ing down the house I sold.

Tuesday May 10 ~ 1898

I met an English-Scotch man today & invited him up to see
us - while he wes here some nice beef came in and we
asked him to dine with us. We had a very good dinner &
he seemed to enjoy it very much. Not being very well, I
put him to work and we both finished the room & put up
shelves & now I have about caught up. after supper I gave
3 white men medicine Tomaz, Silva (both Fortugees) & Mr.
Bottama Dutch. I met Mr. Moutard a former acquaintance

& he ig Chef de Garre at Tumba.

Wednesday May 11- 1898

This a.m. I was called very early to see Capt. Cremonini
a friend of mine who is sick with fever. I dosed him up
and now he is much better thanks. I also went in to see
my other sick friends and found them better. We are
looking for the European mails tonight a
</next_page_context>

Return only the JSON object required by the supplied output schema.
