Empowering communities to build verified, living chronicles of their own history.
Our purpose, principles, and approach
Factkeeper.org provides the open-source infrastructure for communities, researchers, and organizations to create structured, evidence-based records of the issues that matter to them. We combine archival standards with modern technology to transform scattered information into permanent, queryable "Chronicles" of history.
Civic Infrastructure: We provide the digital "plumbing"—the database, the schema, and the interface—that allows independent groups to build rigorous historical archives without needing their own engineering teams.
A Verification Engine: A platform designed for "provenance." We provide the tools for communities to link every event to verifiable primary sources, creating a chain of evidence that resists misinformation.
A Structured Library: Unlike a blog or wiki, Factkeeper turns history into data. We map the connections between people, organizations, and events, making complex timelines understandable for future historians.
An Unmoderated Forum: We are not a social network or a "free-for-all" wiki. Factkeeper is designed for structured curation, where data quality matters more than engagement metrics.
A Publisher of Original News: We do not break news; we provide the tools to organize and preserve the reporting done by journalists and primary sources.
The Arbiter of Truth: We provide the framework for verification (citations, audit trails), but the content and inclusion criteria are determined by the specific communities ("Chronicle Partners") who utilize our infrastructure.
✓ Source-First Architecture: The system is built so that no entry can be published without being anchored to a verifiable external document or source.
✓ Community Validation: Our workflow enforces a "multi-eyes" approach, requiring peer review and consensus before data becomes part of the permanent record.
✓ Radical Transparency: The platform automatically logs edits, version changes, and disputes, creating an immutable audit trail of how the history was written.
✓ Contextual Integrity: The data model allows for linking divergent viewpoints and official rebuttals, ensuring a complete picture rather than a single narrative.
We operate from the premise that information integrity is the bedrock of a functioning society. We Believe:
Note: While Factkeeper provides the neutral infrastructure, we empower our Chronicle Partners to apply these values to the specific domains they document, from local governance to environmental stewardship.
We provide a "Human-in-the-Loop" Archival System.
Structured Curation: We replace free-text summaries with structured data (Events, Entities, Sources), making history machine-readable and searchable.
AI-Augmented Research: We integrate advanced AI tools to assist curators in parsing large documents and identifying bias, but the final record is always reviewed and approved by human judgment.
The Evidentiary Record: Our mission is not to write the history, but to ensure the evidence is preserved so that future generations have the raw material to understand our time.