Where to work to cover recent documents fastest. The Work-in-progress page sorts by graph connectivity; here we weight by the RECENCY of the document emitting the reference — half-life 20 years, reference year 2026 (a 1965 reference weighs 0.15 of a 2026 one). Recomputed on every build.
Each lever would unblock a batch of references; its score is the sum of the recency weights of the documents emitting them, multiplied by the rank of the target — an act of the Magisterium counts double a text that is not one (a Father, an episcopal conference, a private collection). A large old backlog thus does not outrank a recent document, nor a third-party text an encyclical. References from one and the same document are damped: the first few count almost fully, the following ones less and less (131 references from a single citing document weigh 26) — a target cited by twenty documents outranks one cited a hundred times by a single document. “Recognizer” levers (~) are a heuristic estimate (unrecognized notes); the others count already-recognized references. “Ingest” and “add a source” differ by what is already in place, not by what remains: an “ingest” lever has its source configuration and the night pass will handle it unattended; an “add a source” lever first needs that configuration written — sometimes its parser — and no ingestion reaches it until then. “page → §” and “apparatus witnesses” aim at the same gain but not the same act: the first requires opening the facsimile, the cited page being paired with no section anywhere; the second is copied from the corpus, where another document already prints both locators (“Address…, 5: AAS 57 (1965) 881”) and thus attests what the folio carries. “page → §” needs neither: the text is already here and its folios are known, but the apparatus cites it by PAGE (“AAS 115 (2023), 464”) and the reference stops at the whole document. What remains is to read those pages in the facsimile to learn where each one opens in the text — the page count is in the lever’s detail.
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Ghosts that no source configuration reaches today, but whose holding fund has been identified — they can be tackled the day we get to them, where the others wait for a fund to surface. They also appear in the ranking above, each at its rank: this list is a lens, not another category. It asserts neither that the text is ingestible there, nor that the rights allow it — both questions are settled when the work starts.
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References that are entirely real, and that no ingestion will unblock — for three distinct reasons. A PERIODICAL cannot be ingested: the reference names where a text appeared (Osservatore Romano, Documentation catholique, Insegnamenti), and the real work is resolving the DISCOURSES it publishes. A text NEVER PUBLISHED can be read nowhere: synod Propositiones are voted sub secreto. A text ACCESSIBLE BUT RESERVED, finally, reads perfectly well and links to the exact page — the Aparecida Document — but its publisher reserves reproduction rights. The last two are not the same case, hence the reason carried by each row. Removed from the “ingest” ranking so that it does not promise an impossible action there, but their weight is still shown: the debt is real. Only references that still wait for something are counted: when the footnote ALSO gives the address of the act (“… : AAS 81 (1989), p. 472 ; La Documentation catholique 86 (1989), p. 177”), the periodical merely doubles an already-resolved reference, and does not count.
| Target | References | Score | Chiefly benefits |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Osservatore Romano (periodical) | 228 | 42.7 | MH 2026 · UCS 2026 · AEN 2025 |
| La Documentation catholique (French periodical) | 213 | 27.3 | CV 2009 · DP 2008 · ILPD 2008 |
| Insegnamenti (papal teachings, LEV) | 92 | 16.5 | UCS 2026 · AEN 2025 · DLT 2025 |
| Roman Missalreferences name a rubric or a day ("Advent Preface, II"), not a numbered section: nothing to address | 131 | 11.4 | GE 2018 · MV 2015 · RF 2015 |
| Aparecida Document (Fifth General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate, 2007)Accessible and linked to the exact page, but CELAM reserves reproduction rights (art. 12 of the Fifth Conference's Rules): references open its edition, the text does not enter the corpus. | 25 | 8.0 | DLT 2025 · DIN 2024 · FT 2020 |
| Propositiones — Eleventh Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, “The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church” (2005)Voted sub secreto, never published by the Holy See nor put online. | 95 | 6.1 | SACR 2007 |
| Propositiones — Special Assembly for America of the Synod of Bishops, “Encounter with the Living Jesus Christ: The Way to Conversion, Communion and Solidarity in America” (1997)Voted sub secreto, never published by the Holy See nor put online. | 201 | 6.0 | EIAM 1999 |
| Propositiones — Special Assembly for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops, “Jesus Christ and the Peoples of Oceania: Walking His Way, Telling His Truth, Living His Life” (1998)Voted sub secreto, never published by the Holy See nor put online. | 160 | 6.0 | EIO 2001 |
| Propositiones — Special Assembly for Asia of the Synod of Bishops (1998)Voted sub secreto, never put online; the only known edition is under a commercial publisher's copyright. | 124 | 5.1 | EIA 1999 |
| General Instruction of the Roman Missal (before 2002)Names the 1969 and 1975 editions, which we do not hold: vatican.va publishes only the third typical edition (2002), served here as IGMR. References predating 2002 are therefore named but not linked — the same number does not point to the same passage. | 74 | 4.5 | EDM 1997 · VL 1994 · CEC 1992 |
| Propositiones — Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, “The Church in Africa and Her Evangelizing Mission Towards the Year 2000” (1994)Voted sub secreto, never published by the Holy See nor put online. | 93 | 4.0 | EIAF 1995 |
| Roman Ritual and Roman Pontificalthe reference names the collection without saying which book or number: nothing to address | 40 | 3.7 | SACR 2007 · IGMR 2003 · DD 1998 |
| Propositiones — Ninth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, “The Consecrated Life and Its Role in the Church and in the World” (1994)Voted sub secreto, never published by the Holy See nor put online. | 69 | 3.7 | VC 1996 |
| Propositiones — Eighth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, “The Formation of Priests in the Circumstances of the Present Day” (1990)Voted sub secreto, never published by the Holy See nor put online. | 91 | 3.6 | PDV 1992 |
| Liturgy of the Hoursno post-conciliar typical edition is online; the pre-1962 Breviary is free but is not the one cited | 25 | 3.3 | VD 2010 · SACR 2007 · SS 2007 |
| Propositiones — Seventh Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, “Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful” (1987)Voted sub secreto, never published by the Holy See; only a press summary is known. | 47 | 2.3 | CHL 1988 |
| Relatio post disceptationem — Special Assembly for Oceania of the Synod of Bishops (1998)Internal report of the assembly, with no online edition. | 8 | 1.2 | EIO 2001 |
| Ordo exsequiarum (Order of Christian Funerals)no freely accessible typical edition: archive.org holds only a lending copy, and the free facsimile is the pre-conciliar ritual | 6 | 0.9 | IGMR 2003 · EDM 1997 · VL 1994 |
| Ordo unctionis infirmorum eorumque pastoralis curae (Pastoral Care of the Sick)no typical edition is online: archive.org holds only a medieval manuscript, which is a different text | 3 | 0.4 | EDM 1997 · VL 1994 · MCU 1974 |
Share of a document's citations that became live references: linked / (linked + unlinked + backlog). Sorted by remaining gap WEIGHTED by recency — recent still-incomplete documents rise. The backlog is an estimate (notes with no recognized reference).