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honest software

Photograph once, reprocess forever
The albums are old and fragile, so the collection is photographed one time and never handled again. Everything the public site knows is reprocessed from those photographs and a log of facts.
My stamp collection will take a decade to verify, so the site does not wait for me
How a machine is allowed to propose facts about a stamp without being allowed to decide them, and why the public site fills in from candidates instead of stalling on my approval.
The stamp atlas that would rather say "I do not know"
A public site for a lifetime of stamps that shows only what it can honestly stand behind, and says "not yet known" out loud instead of guessing.