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About this site
Dye & Chemistry records how dyeing works as claims with sources, and publishes them so that the evidence and the level of confidence can be traced. Natural and synthetic dyes are looked at in the same way.
Publication is gradual: pages go up one by one, each once its sources have been checked and the site owner has read it through.
The site is written in Japanese first. The English edition is partial: only the themes and entries that have been translated appear in it. Some English entry pages were published before the site owner had read their English text.
The site's declaration appears in Japanese only, on the Japanese about page.
How this site is made and checked
Each page is made in the following steps.
| Step | What is done |
|---|---|
| Gathering sources and extracting claims and evidence | AI (Claude, by Anthropic) |
| Opening the original sources and checking against them | An AI other than the one that did the extraction opens the original source and rereads it twice. A coordinating AI also draws a sample and compares it with the originals. |
| Writing the text | An AI drafts it, a different AI reads it against the original sources, and the coordinating AI revises it. After the revision, another AI checks it again. |
| Policy and the decision to publish | Decided by the site owner. |
| Reading before publication | Each page is read by the site owner. |
| Dyeing and photographs | People do the dyeing. The site owner takes the photographs and keeps the records. |
| Illustrations and diagrams | Drawn by an AI (Codex, by OpenAI); chosen by the site owner. |
| Translation into English | AI |
| Declaration | The site owner's original Japanese text, unchanged |
Each claim's evidence shows a verification status. “Checked against the source by AI” and “checked against the source by the site owner” are shown separately; only evidence whose original source the site owner has personally opened and checked, with a record kept for each item, counts as the latter. The site owner has looked through the original sources of the evidence and, for frequently read articles, has read those sources through. At present, 0 items have such an individual record (out of 3,951 items of evidence in total).
Each claim carries one of these labels: established, supported, preliminary, contested, contextual, observation, unverified. The label shows how strong the evidence is and how far the claim reaches.
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Corrections and contact
When an error is pointed out, we trace the evidence, correct the error, and keep a record of the correction.
To contact us or point out an error, reply to or mention @sometokagaku on Threads.