# 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-075

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

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was coming, so I turned baek & went to work to finish
the doors and windows of my dining room for we are to
have communion service tomorrow night at the A.P.C.M.,
and 1 em to eonduct the service. The Wescott bros. same
back from the cemetery and all together, we managed to
get things pretty well in shape by the hour of 12. In
the p.m. I made preparations for Sunday or Lord's Day.
Good night, May the Lord's will be done. May his Glory
shine for ever in our souls May we ever be ready to do
his will. May I ever be crowned with His glory in order
that I may do His work and be a faithful minister of Him.
Mr. Weseott & Bros. are thinking of going to Stanley
Pool Monday that is starting.

Sunday Mar. 7th 97

Very cool morning and has the appearance of rain. Service
in Fiot at 10 o'clock led by Mr. Wooding, C.B.M. Mr.
Wescott is to take my place this pm. for the Aera ser-
vice. I am to have communion service to-night. The
Wescott Bro's chopped with me today at noon. About 3
o'clock there came up another wind and rain storm. It
must have been in judgment of some state men with a
crowd of natives who had gathered not fer from the missior
and in front of all the houses to practice shooting at a
bottle. Any how the rain was so hard and continued so
long that there was no afternoon service, and when we
Saw that the Christian natives could not get out to the
meeting neither the Ladies of the missions we decided to
postpone com. service until next Sunday & Mr. Morgan was
to conduct the regular service here at my house ASP.C.M.
He however turned it over to the Wescott Bros. who did
very nicely. Mrs. Hill attended she was the only lady.
Service being over and now the time is 9:30 I will retire
hoping to get up early in the morning and purchase a
license for a eapeta who has just come in with 15 men
and who has been engaged to work for the A.P.C.M. I hope
to send him out with 15 loads. Phipps, dear old fellow
is on the road somewhere & I hope he has not suffered
from the rain today. May God bless him on his journey.
Good night

Monday Mar. 8th 1897

Nothing very much happened - did some werk at the house &
Some at the store. Fhipps employed a ecapeta & I bo't
licence for him had quite a time getting straight got
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er for the state for Dr.
Sims &c. Lots of work in this transport business, but
if the Lord will only give me health and strength I will
do it willingly. All in all I got in a good day's work.

Here is another caravan of 14 men I have loaded them
but they will have to wait until tomorrow before they
go as the "receivieur de post" would not make out the
capital's licence today. I got in a little more work &c
but work moves along very slowly, when one has to build
one house and attend to the other thing too work seems
to progress slowly. Good night.
By the Bye - this p.m. a large caravan of 23 men came
in and it was a good chance for Bro. Phipps to get off
to Stanley Pool in order that he might catch the 1st
boat going up. So we hurried to make ready to get him
off on the next morning. Again I say good-night.

This has been a busy day. 23 carriers on hand this a.m.
to go off with Phipps - Capeta somewhat of a humbug, very
contrary about loads. Phipps ready by six o'clock but
through the manouvers of the carriers it was nine o'clock
before he started. But at last he got off o.k. I did
a little toward the house but not able to do much on
account of so many other things.

After working awhile on my house I started for the
cemetery where the sick Spaniard whom I have already
mentioned was interred - he died yesterday, p.m. @ 3
o'clock and was buried this a.m. at 8 o'clock. As I
say I started to the cemetery but there came up con-
siderable wind and looked very much as though a storm
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off with him a cap. of A.B.M.U.

Tuesday Mar. gth 1897
I worked hard today trying to get off some caravans
got off two, both of the A.B.M.U.

Wednesday Mar. ioth 1897
Worked hard writing letters and getting off caravans I
got off two.

Thursday Mar. 11% 1897
Sent off some more loads to the Pool. Took supper with
Mre Hill & wife. Had a pleasant visit.

Friday Mar. 12 - 1897
Wrote some letters, one to Mr. Harvey aceepting a propo-
sition to sell me some goods.

Saturday Mar.13 -~ 1897
I worked about at various things ~ No caravans — No goods.
All gone except what I make up. It is a hard job too

repacking goods. One week ended not much for Christ I'm
afraid.

Sunday Mar. 14 - 1897

Did necessary things about the place caught a ehicken

for chop & gave the boys their chop. Read my Bible.

@ 10 o'clock went to Fiot service Mr. Pinock lead. After
which a collection was taken and the boys gave in NTaku
Knives, fish, frances, and various other things. I then
went down to Bro Hills and called on Mr. Bane & wife &
Mr. Adems who had just come from Likunga. Mr. B has

been sick for over 50 days with slow fever. I then went
home & had chop. At 4 o'clock I held the Akra sercice

and we hed out a good crowd. At night again @ 7:30 I
held a meeting @ the B.M.S. house where we had a communion
service. My first to preside over. We had a large crowd
teking in the natives. About 50 of us in all. Song 645 -
Prayer - Crowley ~ song 165 - reading scriptures, Crowley-
Song 714 - Fiote prayer for ble
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Return only the JSON object required by the supplied output schema.
