Two working demos of FAHRAS

A stage before the pipeline. Records imported from a partner database, or found in desk research, now sit in In review — worked on, but with outreach impossible from that state. A supervisor accepts a record into the pipeline before any email can be sent. Much of the imported material never needs outreach at all, and this is where it lives.

Data entry is a role question, not a stage question. A supervisor can enter data at any point in the journey. A researcher's entry opens once an interview is scheduled. The rule the demo previously enforced — nobody types anything before the interview — was wrong about how the desk actually works.

The transcript is editable in place. Speaker-separated, searchable, and corrected line by line, with the original kept beside every change. Review is no longer an invisible step between transcription and the record.

The supervisor can leave a comment on a field rather than returning the whole record. The researcher sees the unread count, answers where the comment sits, and marks it resolved.

The self-fill form carries the artworks. The artist checks the work records as well as the biography — the largest single gap between what the interview produces and what the index needs.

Asking to use a moment is its own loop. The permission matrix records standing openness; each actual use returns to the artist with the exact quotation and the intended date, and is approved or refused on its own.

The admin role is a full superset. Everything a researcher or supervisor can do, an admin can do, with the role in force written into the audit trail alongside the action.

A participant terms document. The consent structure the form collects now has a written counterpart that can be sent to a signing party. It is a draft pending legal review, and it is not part of these demos.

The desk comes first. A researcher approaches an artist, holds the interview, and reviews the transcript field by field, accepting or correcting what was extracted from it.

The form follows. Once that review is signed off, the artist is sent a link — in the same email as the participant terms — carrying those confirmed values back to them. They are checking a page rather than composing one.

Corrections return as evidence. What the artist changes is flagged as coming from them, at the highest source reliability, and kept alongside the original rather than overwriting it.

Nothing publishes without approval. The finished record goes back to the artist exactly as it would appear, and publication is blocked until an approval exists for that version.

On the desk: the artists in the pipeline each sit at a different phase, so every step is reachable without working through the whole sequence. The stepper at the top of any record is clickable — past phases open read-only.

The index: the left rail opens the published side of the same data — artist and work records, the theme vocabulary, and institutions as records rather than typed strings, which is what makes “who else studied there” a query rather than a text search.

Ask FAHRAS: search over the index that answers in sentences and cites the record behind every claim. Ask it to rank artists, or for a year it holds nothing on, and it declines rather than inventing. This is FAHRAS searching itself — not HEKMAT.

Roles: FAHRAS has three, as WRKBK does — Researcher, Supervisor, Admin. Sign in as Researcher, then use Switch role. Approval is available only to the Supervisor and the switch is itself logged, which is how self-approval stays visible while one person holds both roles.

Sharing: the fifth permission question is a matrix rather than a yes or no — the artist ticks the places a moment from the conversation may appear, from Instagram to a conference talk to a catalogue essay, and leaves the rest. Ticking a box releases nothing on its own: each use returns to them with the exact quotation or clip for sign-off, and they can refuse one item without changing any of the answers.

On the form: note that there is no sign-in. Artists never hold an account; the link carries the record to them and their answers back. The language toggle in the top right switches the whole form to Arabic with right-to-left layout. Every question can be skipped, and a partial answer is a valid one.