No material skips intake.
Nothing lands in the catalog without passing every step of a defined procedure. Account exports from ChatGPT and Gemini are treated as unverified and unscoped until they clear collection, privacy screening, dedupe, and verification.
To begin a work, provide the account export.
The Library of Alexandria cannot catalog, describe, or verify a ChatGPT- or Gemini-derived work until the official account export is obtained and placed in its drop zone. No export means no verified source, and no verified source means no catalog entry.
This site has no upload form and collects no data. Exports are delivered privately to the Intake Coordinator through the owner\'s own channel, never through this public page. The links above open each provider\'s official export tool in a new tab.
Two placeholders, awaiting source
ChatGPT export
PendingNot yet obtained. The chatgpt-export/ drop zone is empty. A placeholder entry exists in the catalog; no editorial claims about content, quality, or scope are permitted until intake completes.
Source path when available: Settings → Data Controls → Export data.
Gemini export
PendingNot yet obtained. The gemini-export/ drop zone is empty. A placeholder entry exists in the catalog; no editorial claims are permitted until intake completes.
Source path when available: Google Takeout → Gemini Apps Activity scope.
No steps beyond placeholder creation have been performed for either export. Advancing a placeholder to development-corpus or published-preview is a separate, deliberate editorial decision — never done in the same step that admits new intake.
From raw archive to cataloged source
Applies to both ChatGPT and Gemini exports. A failure at any step routes the item to quarantine — held, not deleted.
Obtain
Use the official export mechanism — never screenshots or retyping. Place the untouched archive in its drop zone; extract into a working subfolder.
Record metadata
Log provider, request/download dates, filename, size, and SHA-256 hash before opening the content.
Scope & privacy screen
Scan for personal/sensitive data; keep only threads relevant to a Library of Alexandria work. Anything sensitive stays quarantined and never enters the catalog.
Dedupe
Compare against existing sources. Verbatim duplicates become corroborating copies, not new sources; contradictions get flagged for a Publisher decision.
Verify
Extract exact, quotable passages preserving wording. Save a scoped excerpt to _processed/ — never point sources at the raw archive.
Assign status
New material enters as pending-source-ingestion first. Corroborating material extends an existing work's sources as a dated, additive change.
Drop zones
Dedupe rules
- Hash-first. Identical hash means the same file, not a new source.
- Near-duplicates are successor versions — keep both, cite the most complete.
- Timestamp precedence is a provisional judgment when verified sources conflict — logged, never an automatic overwrite.
Before any export-derived content is used in a published work, a counsel-review gate applies regarding each provider's terms of service and output-ownership terms. This pipeline makes that gate visible; it does not resolve it. No legal conclusions are issued here.