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=== Dan Gross research files === | === Dan Gross research files === | ||
The roster backbone is a spreadsheet and related working files Dan Gross maintained for the original theritchieboys.com project: Camp Ritchie class lists, demographics, IPW team assignments, research notes, and cross-references he and collaborators gathered over decades. That work is invaluable but was never a formal archival finding aid; typos, duplicate names, and uncertain matches were part of the working process. | The roster backbone is a spreadsheet and related working files Dan Gross maintained for the original theritchieboys.com project: Camp Ritchie class lists, demographics, IPW team assignments, research notes, and cross-references he and collaborators gathered over decades. Dan's original Excel timeline/roster file was the general starting point for this project, but it '''was not and is not uploaded to this site'''. Its information was combined with other research and records; it was never treated as the sole authority. That work is invaluable but was never a formal archival finding aid; typos, duplicate names, and uncertain matches were part of the working process. | ||
=== Dan Gross timeline documents === | === Dan Gross timeline documents === | ||
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=== Automated and AI-assisted work === | === Automated and AI-assisted work === | ||
Parts of the site use software—and, in places, AI-assisted tools—to draft opening summaries, merge duplicate fields, link names of other Ritchie Boys in text, clean up imported Facebook prose, and suggest infobox values from biography text | Parts of the site use software—and, in places, AI-assisted tools—to draft opening summaries, merge duplicate fields, link names of other Ritchie Boys in text, clean up imported Facebook prose, and suggest infobox values from biography text. These passes are meant to save editor time, not to certify accuracy. Output is reviewed when we notice problems, but there is no guarantee that every AI-generated or script-generated sentence was checked by a human expert. | ||
=== Document OCR (contributor uploads) === | === Document OCR (contributor uploads) === | ||
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