PROJECT / WCH-342 / ACTIVE
Continuity Variance Study
Longitudinal study of cases in which separately maintained records remain internally coherent but disagree on dates, names, sequence, or event outcome. The project compares provenance, witness recall, copying history, and institutional recordkeeping before treating a discrepancy as unresolved.
FIELD / FACILITY SITES
Wyman Hall Archive
Wheelock University Special Collections
partner municipal and regional repositories
METHODS
independent-record comparison
provenance reconstruction
blinded recall studies
temporal-sequence analysis
discrepancy persistence testing
EQUIPMENT / SYSTEMS
controlled document-imaging workstations
archival comparison terminals
audio interview suite
provenance-tracking database
RECENT ACTIVITY
2026-09-18 — contradictory-provenance study published
2026-08-14 — paired municipal and archival corpus added to blind comparison set
2026-07-29 — three divergence cases retained after provenance review
FUNDING
Tern Foundation
TF-24-88 · $1,180,000