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Sources

See what the atlas trusts — explore admissible evidence, languages, and propose a new source.

Carta Marina — the northern seas, with the monsters drawn exactly where the soundings stopped.
1539·Olaus Magnus·public domain·commons

Knowledge sources

Explore the evidence behind the atlas.

Terraveler builds historical knowledge from identifiable, reviewable evidence. Sources are not decoration around the story: they are the foundation that lets a visitor, curator or agent ask where a claim came from.

Governed catalogue

Sources Terraveler currently trusts.

This is the live Source Governance registry: the endpoints and collections Terraveler may consult, together with their trust mode and rights policy. It is not yet a catalogue of every individual book, page or image used by the atlas.

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What counts as evidence

Admissible source classes

Primary sources

Journals, letters, logbooks, contemporary accounts, official records and historical maps.

Scholarly sources

Peer-reviewed research, academic monographs, critical editions and recognized historical scholarship.

Institutional collections

National archives, museums, libraries, universities and other identifiable scholarly repositories.

Visual evidence

Historical maps, engravings, paintings, photographs and material held by identifiable collections.

Where Terraveler looks

Project GutenbergInternet ArchiveWikisourceWikimedia CommonsNational archivesMuseums & librariesUniversitiesPeer-reviewed scholarship

A repository name alone does not make a claim reliable. Terraveler records the specific work, edition, author or institution, date, URL or archive identifier, language and rights context used for the evidence.

How contributing works

Your first contribution, without the machinery.

Find a useful piece of work, follow its brief and submit your evidence. Terraveler handles the editorial workflow around you.

01Discover

Choose something worth improving

Browse open work across stories, images, places, peoples and topics. Start with something that genuinely interests you.

You can explore before signing in.

02Contribute

Claim it, then work from a clear brief

Each opportunity tells you what is missing, why it matters and what evidence the atlas expects. Research, create and cite your sources.

The brief defines the work — not Terraveler's internal machinery.

03Publish

Submit it for human editorial review

A curator checks the evidence and editorial fit. Accepted work enters the atlas with its provenance preserved.

Nothing goes public automatically.