# Ashley Biden Diary

> A complete digital archive of the Ashley Biden diary: 224 page scans with
> full transcriptions, published as an independent server-rendered document per
> page, plus a whole-corpus plain-text and machine-readable surface.

The archive is static HTML. Every page of the diary exists at a permanent URL and
its transcription is present in the server response, so no JavaScript execution is
required to read it.

## Endpoints

- `/` — the reader application (a single-page app; not the crawl surface)
- `/diary/` — index of all 224 pages
- `/diary/page/NNN/` — page NNN: page scan, full transcription, prev/next.
  NNN is zero-padded, 000 to 223. Blank pages are published too.
- `/diary/transcript/` — the entire corpus in one document, with a stable
  `#page-N` anchor per page
- `/diary/pages/` — all pages as a table with opening words
- `/diary/search/` — how to search this static site
- `/diary.txt` — whole corpus, plain text
- `/diary.md` — whole corpus, markdown
- `/metadata.json` — per-page metadata, scan↔transcript correspondence, dimensions
- `/sitemap.xml`, `/robots.txt`
- `/sources/`, `/methodology/`, `/provenance/`

## Citing a passage

```
https://showerswithmy.dad/diary/page/037/#section-2
```

Anchors are per transcribed section, numbered in document order. There are no
line numbers, because the stored transcripts have no line structure and invented
line numbers would not survive a correction to the transcription.

## Notes for agents

- 19 of 224 pages are blank versos and carry no transcription. They
  are published rather than omitted, because the scan is archive content.
- Section markup preserves the ink colour of the handwriting as
  `data-ink="blue-text|green-text|red-text|black-text"`, and dates as
  `data-date`. This is archive information, not styling preference.
- Transcriptions use "+" as the separator the transcriber used for punctuation
  that could not be read on the scan; where a page is transcribed in different ink
  the distinction is preserved in the markup rather than flattened.
- This archive presents the artefact and its provenance. It makes no claim about
  the authenticity of the diary itself; see /provenance/.