- Obtain a lawful official copy of
Town Meeting Time, 4th Editionin PDF or another usable format and add it underdata/sources/tmt4/.- Do not use unofficial scans or unverified copies.
- Once added, record title, edition, publisher, copyright/provenance note, local path, and retrieval/acquisition date in
data/sources/tmt4.md.
- Obtain any town-specific charter, bylaw, zoning bylaw, rule, warrant, motion, recommendation, minutes, or action documents that are not available from an official public URL.
- Store town-wide sources under
data/sources/. - Store meeting-specific sources under the relevant
data/meetings/<MEETING>/sources/folder. - Add provenance notes to the meeting
manifest.jsonbefore using the source in article briefs.
- Store town-wide sources under
- Review motion/action records flagged as
blank_templateorno_extractable_textin each meeting'sworking/JSON outputs. - Add OCR or manual transcription workflow for official PDFs that cannot be parsed reliably from embedded text.