transcription/docs/ver4/index_v4.md

Document Transcription System Overview (Version 4)

Version 4 is the architecture baseline for the personal-scale application used to transcribe, organize, and preserve historical documents, source images, and related people records.

Recommended Reading Order

1. System Architecture for capabilities, technical stack, runtime structure, workflows, and component ownership.
2. System Requirements for the verifiable V4 contract.
3. Data Model for entities, relationships, constraints, and persistence rules.
4. Error Handling Policy for the V4 taxonomy and boundary contracts.

Cross-Version Invariants

• Historical Document Transcription Design Intent
• Transcription Methodology
• Error Handling
• Digital Evidence and AI Processing Provenance
• UI Style Guide

V4 Transition Documents

• Scope Boundary
• Implementation Plan

Incremental Revisions

• V4.1 Scope and Implementation Plan
• V4.2 Evidence and Provenance Scope and Implementation Plan
• V4.3 Settings Scope and Implementation Plan
• V4.4 Semantic Registries, Linked People, and Printing Scope and Implementation Plan
• V4.5 Transcription Input Normalization and Quality Scope and Implementation Plan
• V4.6 Architecture Conformance and Reliability Scope and Implementation Plan