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The Historical Intelligence Dashboard

History Will Become Visual, Not Textual

The Historical Intelligence Dashboard feature of the Digital Research Vault will represent discovery, while the right side will represent organized knowledge, as you see in this rendering of the dashboard.

The Digital Research Vault is designed to be the bridge between them.

Our vision is for you to ultimately be able to sit down at your computer and open what feels less like a website and more like the equivalent of walking into the National Archives and its American Expeditionary Forces Siberia section.

Not folders.  Not just pdfs, but a true historical intelligence platform, which we recognize will take time to construct.

Instead of simply storing documents, the Vault will become an interactive investigative workspace on the Romanov mission.  As we build out this feature, the Vault will become visual, not just textual.

Thousands of interconnected historical assets will live here.

A digital research dashboard titled 'History Had Eyes' displaying investigation details into Nicholas II's rescue mission, with sections for evidence collections, an interactive timeline, global movement map, relationship network, documentary library, and research workspace. Background features historical photographs, a globe, books, and a vintage photo of a soldier.

The Envisioned Historical Intelligence Dashboard

Imagine Opening the Vault

The first screen would not simply list files.  Instead, it would display something like:

Featured Investigation | The Rescue of Nicholas II 

  • Status

  • Evidence Reviewed

  • Confidence Level

  • Newest Discovery

  • Archive Researchers

  • Recently Added Documents

It is designed to immediately communicate what is under active investigation.

 

Collections | Visual Tiles

  • Military Orders

  • Intelligence Reports

  • Diplomatic Correspondence

  • Personal Diaries

  • Newspaper Coverage

  • Maps

  • Photographs

  • Government Memoranda

  • Oral Histories

Each tile opens into an entire evidence collection as it becomes available.

 

Interactive World Map | Active Clicking Coming 

  • Chattanooga

  • Fort Oglethorpe

  • Kansas City

  • San Francisco

  • Honolulu

  • Vladivostok

  • Yekaterinburg

  • Archangelsk

  • Irkutsk

  • Chita

  • Harbin

  • Tokyo

  • Fort Lewis

  • Chicago

  • New York City

Every stop on Martin Hutson’s Romanov mission reveals photographs, orders, people, maps, documents, film clips, and other related evidence.

Related Connections | Cross Ties with the Evidence Room

 

Here you will find links to the Evidence Room:

  • Detailed timeline information related to the Romanov mystery

  • DNA-related material

  • Documented detail on the key players in the Romanov story

Almost like an intelligence analyst’s relationship chart.  In other words, reflects our focus on Collaborative Intelligence.

Research Workspace | A Place for Vault Subscribers 

A place to literally build their own case:

  • Bookmarks

  • Annotations

  • Collections

  • Private Notes

  • Evidence Ratings

  • Questions

  • Possible Undiscovered Connections

  • Shared Research Groups

This feature is designed for evidence to become even more extraordinary.

The Impact

Your support by joining History Had Eyes as a Romanov Research Investigator will make possible our even deeper understanding of how collaborative intelligence positively impacted history.

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