Governance
Corrections and changelog
A record with no corrections in it is either very new or is not being read by anyone who knows better. This one is very new.
1 logged changes0 corrections0 superseded claims retained0 accepted contributions
Nothing on this record is silently corrected. When a claim turns out to be wrong it is superseded, not deleted: the old claim keeps its identifier, is marked as superseded, and stays reachable — so anyone who cited it can see what happened to it, and nobody repeats the reasoning that produced it. The same applies to a negative finding, which is recorded precisely so the next researcher does not spend the same afternoon on the same dead end.
A change to the canonical record cannot be made without a logged reason. That is a structural constraint rather than a habit — the reason field is required by the schema and the build refuses a change without one. Corrections are accepted from anyone, are reviewed before they enter the record, and are credited to the person who found the problem, by name, permanently. No externally credited correction has been logged yet; the first one will be named here.
No external contributions have been received yet. The most useful thing anyone can send this project is evidence that something on it is wrong.
What the entry types mean
- Release
- A dossier version was published.
Not yet used on this record: correction, retraction, new evidence, clarification, addition, policy. They are listed in the data model because the record will eventually need them, and an entry type invented at the moment it is first needed tends to be shaped by the change it is describing.
2026-08-12
1 entry
- ReleaseCH-001Dossier v0.9
Record compiled and published at version 0.9
NP-RMB-001 receives its identifier and a public record. The compilation drew on the acquisition file — the auction catalogue entry, the payment receipt, the auction house's condition photographs of the sheet, correspondence with the department specialist, and the New Hollstein catalogue entry for no. 170 — together with a survey of institutional collection records for this plate. What that established is on the object record and the state atlas, with the evidence and confidence for each field. What it did not establish is on the research questions board. From this entry onward every change to the canonical record is logged here with its reason and, where one applies, the name of the person who found it.
Why this changed
A record that is not public cannot be corrected by anyone who knows better.
Affected records
- np-rmb-001
Changes are logged against the dossier version they belong to, and each version’s full summary sits on publications and data. Superseded claims remain queryable through the public API with their status marked, so a machine reading this record can tell the difference between a claim that was never made and one that was withdrawn.