Cartis methodology
Infrastructure intelligence should be inspectable, not mysterious.
Cartis separates what a source reported from what has been reviewed and published. Every material value is designed to remain connected to its evidence, status and history.
Source record
What the document or dataset actually says
Assertion
The claim, value, unit and evidential context
Canonical record
The reviewed site, entity or relationship
Public view
Only information cleared for publication
Research workflow
From fragmented evidence to a usable record.
The process is designed to make disagreement and uncertainty visible instead of forcing false precision.
Collect
Capture public, licensed and internally researched records without treating every source statement as fact.
Normalize
Preserve the original wording while mapping reviewed values into controlled vocabularies.
Connect
Resolve sites, participants and infrastructure to stable identities and explicit relationships.
Review
Evaluate conflicts, uncertain matches, publication readiness and material changes before promotion.
Publish
Expose only qualifying records through constrained public views while preserving internal history.
Verification standard
The record keeps the parts most databases discard.
Claim-level sourcing
Sources attach to the assertion or relationship they support, not merely to a project page.
Conflicts remain visible
Competing figures and interpretations can coexist until review resolves—or deliberately preserves—the disagreement.
History is not overwritten
Superseded claims and changed values retain their prior state and review context.
Raw values are preserved
Specialized source wording remains available even when a canonical vocabulary is blank or more general.
No inferred values
Operating capacity and other material facts are left blank when the evidence does not support a reviewed value.
Publication is controlled
Visibility and publication readiness are independently checked before records reach public views.
What a Cartis profile is
- A connected view of a site and its participants
- A structured record of property facts, phases, capacity and infrastructure
- A timeline of sourced assertions and material developments
- An explicit account of unresolved or disputed evidence
What it is not
Cartis is not a claim that every public report is correct, nor a system that hides uncertainty behind a single unexplained number. It is a framework for making evidence, judgment and change legible.
See the methodology in practice.
Open a site profile and follow the record from headline facts to supporting sources.