Everything the archive can do

Public profiles for skaters, officials, coaches, owners, promoters, and announcers, connected to teams, events, and historic media.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Team, league, and organization records with seasons, rosters, and connections to people and events.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Historic photographs, programs, clippings, articles, and publications with archive item details and viewable materials where authorized.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Public source citations and evidence pages so historical facts are traceable and verifiable.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Required

Search and filtering across the archive, historical timelines, decade hubs, and public relationship views where active.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Public memorial content and verified life-date (birthday/remembrance) information, with protective rules on sensitive facts.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Secure account registration and authentication with session and account-security protections. Public self-registration is gated in preview.

For:

Registered Member

Requires role:

member

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Members can save drafts, resume later, and follow the status of their contributions.

For:

Registered Member, Contributor

Requires role:

member

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Profile management, privacy controls, and account-security settings for members.

For:

Registered Member

Requires role:

member

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

A guided contribution workflow for multi-file uploads, batch metadata, source and rights declarations, dates/locations, and person/team/event tagging. Public submission remains closed until the full lifecycle is green.

For:

Contributor

Requires role:

contributor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Contributors can propose a provisional new Person (with evidence) that curators review before it becomes a canonical record.

For:

Contributor

Requires role:

contributor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Structured submission of birthdays, death/memorial information, biographical notes, stories, and evidence-backed corrections — all reviewed before publication.

For:

Contributor

Requires role:

contributor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Reviewers can send a submission back with notes; contributors revise and resubmit, with all states tracked.

For:

Contributor, Reviewer / Curator

Requires role:

contributor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Not required

Submitted files enter secure quarantine for security review before any processing or publication.

For:

Administrator

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Not required

The original file is preserved untouched; viewable derivatives and thumbnails are generated separately.

For:

Administrator

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Optical character recognition and metadata extraction to make printed materials searchable. Advisory only — never automatically canonical. The production OCR provider (AWS Textract) is blocked pending owner-controlled access.

For:

Administrator

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Not required

Exact-duplicate detection plus near-duplicate review to keep the archive clean, with human review of matches.

For:

Reviewer / Curator

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Not required

Tag a Person on a whole image or a specific region, with keyboard-accessible region selection.

For:

Contributor, Reviewer / Curator

Requires role:

contributor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Record identity evidence beyond faces: uniform names/numbers, team colors, captions, rosters, dates, venues, and context — always human-reviewed.

For:

Contributor, Reviewer / Curator

Requires role:

subject_reviewer

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Duplicate Person review, governed merge, and merge rollback with recorded evidence and confidence — fully reversible and audited.

For:

Reviewer / Curator, Content Manager

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

A future privately governed facial-similarity research tool to help reunite unidentified people with families, under strict privacy/consent rules. The real provider (AWS Rekognition) is blocked pending owner-controlled access; development uses no real facial recognition.

For:

Administrator

Requires role:

system_admin

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Canonical historical facts are source-backed and kept separate from community interpretation, memories, and research suggestions.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Publication-readiness, rights-review, and security-clearance gates must pass before anything becomes public.

For:

Reviewer / Curator

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Records are tombstoned instead of deleted, every change is versioned and audited, and governed changes are reversible with rollback controls and public-leakage prevention.

For:

Administrator

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Not required

Correction workflows, birthday-protection rules, and evidence-backed challenges let the community improve accuracy without overwriting canonical facts unilaterally.

For:

Contributor

Requires role:

contributor

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Content intake, submission review, rights review, security review, metadata review, identity review, Person-proposal review, duplicate/near-duplicate review, merge review, and publication-blocked queues.

For:

Reviewer / Curator, Content Manager

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Not required

Authorized reviewers approve, publish, and correct governed records within their assigned authority, with audit history access.

For:

Reviewer / Curator, Content Manager

Requires role:

curator

Review:

Required

Evidence:

Required

Administrative dashboards for user/role management, feature-flag control, audit review, processing oversight, and publication controls — without exposing sensitive internals.

For:

Administrator

Requires role:

system_admin

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Keyboard support, screen-reader labels, mobile responsiveness, accessible validation, clear required-field guidance, draft protection, plain-language instructions, and brand-consistent contrast.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Original-file preservation, separation of originals and derivatives, audit-ready reversible changes, source retention, structured metadata, and protection against accidental deletion.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required

Japanese will be the first additional language surface; the locale shell is gated off until real translated content is ready.

For:

Public Visitor

Review:

Not required

Evidence:

Not required