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The site is built in waves. If you have probed a route like /ask or /compare and seen a 404, this page tells you whether it is coming. Items are grouped by status, then by gameplan phase.

In progress3 Planned2 Shipped16

In progress

In progressHotfix cycle
About hub + roadmap
/about
About hub linking Methodology, Editorial policy, and this Roadmap.
In progressPhase 5-B
Per-release redaction diff (/compare)
/compare
Foundation view for comparing the same NAID/RIF across releases. Visual diffs remain gated on per-release OCR and source PDF provenance.
Tracking issue
In progressPhase 5-E follow-up
Public API key + rate limit layer
Policy inventory for anonymous, metered, and keyed public API access before enforcement is wired into the route layer.
Tracking issue

Planned

PlannedPhase 5-D
Grounded research chatbot (/ask)
/ask
Hard-cited Q&A grounded in the corpus via Vertex AI. Gold-set eval and citation guardrails are documented before public UI work.
Tracking issue
PlannedPhase 5-F
Public dataset mirror
Publish curated tables to bigquery-public-data:jfk_research_center.* once the public API has stabilized.

Shipped

ShippedPhase 0
Home + scope banner
/
Curated landing page with the corpus scope disclosure and Featured Entities/Topics rails.
ShippedPhase 4 / 5-A
Search (document, mention, semantic)
/search
Three-tab search across record metadata, OCR mentions, and Vertex semantic vectors.
ShippedPhase 2-A
Entity detail pages
/entity/[slug]
Per-person/org pages with Quick Facts, timeline, related topics, top documents, and sources.
ShippedPhase 2-B
Topic detail pages
/topic/[slug]
Per-topic AI summary + long-form analysis with inline citations, related entities, and document grid.
ShippedPhase 1
Document detail pages
/document/[id]
Per-record metadata, OCR panel, release history strip, and per-chunk citation deep links.
ShippedPhase 3-F (light)
Case timeline
/timeline
Vertical chronological case timeline; full zoomable D3 view planned.
ShippedPhase 1-D
Physical evidence catalog
/evidence
Catalog of 33 ballistic, firearm, photographic, medical, and documentary items.
ShippedPhase 2-D
Open Questions
/open-questions
Per-topic and global articles surfacing tensions in the corpus, generated via map-reduce.
ShippedPhase 2-C
Established Facts
/established-facts
Symmetric counterweight to Open Questions: WC/HSCA/ARRB/Church-supported findings.
ShippedPhase 3-H
Release history
/releases
Reverse-chron declassification milestones with per-release record counts.
ShippedPhase 3-I
Bibliography
/bibliography
Allowlisted citations in Bluebook/Chicago/APA formats.
ShippedPhase 5-C
Case link chart
/graph
Investigation-style board of entity-pair co-occurrence with labeled links, filters, and year-range controls.
ShippedPhase 5-E
Public API v1
/api/v1/*
Read-only, CORS-open endpoints for documents, entities, topics, timeline, and semantic search.
ShippedHotfix cycle
Corrections workflow (public form)
/corrections
Public form for flagging factual errors; submissions queue in BigQuery (corrections_submissions).
ShippedHotfix cycle follow-up
Corrections admin triage view
/admin/corrections
Admin-gated page for triaging corrections submissions. Gated on the HMAC session cookie shipped with /admin/redactions; status transitions (new → reviewing → resolved/rejected) plus triage notes save to corrections_submissions.
ShippedHotfix cycle
Dealey Plaza interactive map
/dealey-plaza
SVG schematic of 1963 Dealey Plaza with 20 witness positions plotted from sworn testimony; toggleable shot-origin filter, click-to-read side panel, and a neutrality disclaimer.

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