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How the full system works

From a public record to community-published knowledge

JusticeHub starts with the national record already held about a place. Communities work privately to define outcomes, connect evidence and decide what they stand behind. Only an authorised owner publishes that edition back into the public system.

One continuous record

Seven steps from discovery to governed publication

The public page and the private dashboard are two surfaces of the same system. Each step keeps its source, access level and decision authority visible.

  1. Public

    Anyone

    Find a community

    Start with the national map, directory or search. The curated registry identifies the place, its lead organisation, public sources and known gaps.

    Browse communities
  2. Public

    Anyone

    Read the public baseline

    Open one community record. Registry facts, sourced figures, funding context and research remain clearly labelled. This baseline can exist before a community claims or publishes an edition.

    Open the Cowra record
  3. Protected

    Community member or authorised support

    Enter the community workspace

    A signed-in community team works behind the public page. Membership allows people to prepare the record. It does not, by itself, grant community publication authority.

    Open the Cowra workspace
  4. Protected

    Community workspace

    Define local outcomes

    The community names the change it wants in its own language, adds its interpretation and may optionally map it to a shared domain. The local wording remains primary.

    Open local outcomes
  5. Protected

    Community workspace

    Add what is known

    A yarn, observation or report begins as a private, resumable draft. It keeps its source, method, context, audience and purpose. Saving never makes it public.

    Open guided evidence entry
  6. Community authority

    Owner publication decision

    Review and publish an edition

    Source checking, steward review and community approval stay separate. Only a community owner with verified site-specific authority can publish or withdraw the immutable edition.

    Open review and publish
  7. Public learning

    Anyone reads, community retains authority

    Return to the public record

    The active community-published edition appears above the sourced baseline. National discovery may use approved shared-domain mappings only when the edition explicitly allows shared learning.

    Read shared learning

What changes after publication

The baseline stays. Community authority is added visibly.

Before a community edition

Public-source baseline

  • Registry identity, location and lead-organisation context.
  • Sourced figures, evaluations, funding and known gaps.
  • Clearly labelled as a public record, not community approval.

After owner publication

Community-published edition plus baseline

  • Local outcome wording and interpretation remain primary.
  • Edition, publication date, purpose and authority are visible.
  • Withdrawal removes the public edition while retaining audit history.

Claiming a page does not transfer ownership of every public fact, and organisational membership does not automatically grant publication authority. The sourced baseline and community edition remain distinct, traceable layers.

Choose your path

Start with what you are here to do

I am part of a community team

Open the existing public record first, then enter the protected workspace to define outcomes, add evidence and prepare a community decision.

I can strengthen a public record

Suggest a source, correction or local context through the governed intake. The suggestion goes to a private review queue and cannot publish or create story consent.

I am reading across communities

Use the impact record and methodology together. Follow the original source, evidence class, validation state and community sign-off instead of reading one blended score.

What lives where

One page can connect the systems without copying ownership

JusticeHub brings the relevant layers into view. Each source keeps control of the data and decision it is responsible for.

SystemWhat it holdsBoundary
JusticeHub public recordCurated registry facts, public source links, sourced figures, evaluations and funding context.A public baseline is not labelled community-approved. Missing facts stay visible.
JR community workspacePrivate local outcomes, evidence drafts, relevance links, review decisions and publication snapshots.Drafts stay protected. A save, source check or admin action cannot publish them.
Empathy LedgerStory identity, content, consent, attribution and cultural permission.JusticeHub keeps only the relationship and local relevance, then checks live permission before display.
ALMA research evidenceResearch records, evidence references and optional outcome suggestions.Research can inform local work. It cannot approve a community outcome or publish a community edition.
Public contribution intakeA private contact submission containing a suggested source, correction or context.It is an intake queue only. It never becomes a metric, story consent or public content automatically.
Read the full methodology and governance model →

The publication boundary

Support can prepare the record. Only community authority can publish it.

Editors and platform administrators may help prepare drafts or check sources. They cannot impersonate community approval. Publication and withdrawal require a current, verified authority for that specific site.