The Hub · Method

How records are rated and kept fresh.

Entries on this hub carry a source rating: an honest signal of how well their claims are corroborated. This page explains how those ratings work, how links are checked, and how the hub is maintained. The engine behind it is Crawl, the DAAC public-source engine.

Corroboration

Source ratings

Material claims are rated by the number, diversity and reliability of the independent sources behind them. A body publishing about itself counts as one source. Figures are dated.

Well corroborated
Three or more independent sources of different types agree.
Moderately corroborated
Two independent sources, or one authoritative source plus corroboration.
Single source
One source only. Read with caution.
Freshness

Link checks

Every external link is checked with a real request to the URL before it is published, and re-checked on later maintenance passes. Nothing ships on a dead link.

A link check covers the link and an editorial read, not a re-verification of every claim on the live page. That is what the source rating is for.

Upkeep

Maintained, in the open

The hub is re-scanned on a set cadence. New records are added, links re-checked, entries re-dated. Every refresh lands in the dated Updates feed. Candidates that fail verification are parked, not discarded, and retried on later passes, so coverage compounds.

Report a gap or a correction

If something is missing, wrong or out of date, tell us. Reports are logged when they arrive and handled in the next maintenance pass.

Send a correction
The engine

About Crawl

Crawl is a DAAC product: an agentic engine that scans a sector’s scattered public record, verifies findings by corroboration, organises them into a navigable hub, and maintains their freshness. This hub runs on it, alongside DAAC’s other reference hubs.

Crawl at daac.ai