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Jun 25, 2026

Heratio Help Center article. Category: Administration.

Trust and Transparency Console

Overview

The Trust and Transparency Console is a single operator page that gathers, in one place, every surface that lets the institution and its visitors see how the collection is cared for and accounted for. It is the institution's transparency control panel.

These surfaces are real and live across the platform, but they had been scattered and hard to find. The console does not re-implement any of them - it is a hub that links to each one, and only shows a link when that feature is installed on this site.

Open it at /admin/trust-console (administrators only).

What you will find

The console groups the surfaces into four clear sections.

Authenticity and provenance

  • Trust home - the public front door to the institution's trust signals.
  • Verified records - a public roll of records carrying content credentials.
  • Authenticity report (per record) - a plain-language "what we can and cannot verify" report for one record.
  • AI inference provenance (per record) - which AI inferences contributed to a record's metadata, with a human kept accountable.
  • Verify authenticity and Check content credentials of a file - the public "is this real?" tools.
  • Authenticity coverage - how much of the collection carries content credentials.

Preservation

  • Preservation dashboard - the operator hub for fixity, events, formats, virus scans and packages.
  • Fixity and integrity report - checksum baseline coverage and the latest verification sweep.
  • Preservation maturity (NDSA levels) - an evidence-based self-assessment.
  • Preservation timeline (per record) - the lifecycle of one record's digital objects.

Accessibility

  • Accessibility coverage report - a heuristic coverage report citing WCAG 2.1 AA.
  • Alt-text curation - add human-authored alternative text to image surrogates.

Open data and transparency

  • Open data home, protocol and maturity scorecard.
  • DCAT data catalog and the linked-data / RDF dataset dump.
  • Union catalogue, the OAI-PMH harvest endpoint, and public themes.

How to read the cards

  • A green Available badge plus an Open button means the surface is installed and ready. The button opens it in a new tab.
  • A grey Not configured badge means that feature is not installed on this site. The card still appears, so you know the capability exists, but there is no link to a page that is not there.
  • Some cards show a small count badge (for example signed manifests, fixity checks logged, or alt texts curated) where that figure is cheap to compute.
  • Per-record surfaces (authenticity report, inference provenance, preservation timeline) open a sample record so you can demonstrate them.

Notes

  • The console is completely read-only. It changes nothing and runs no AI.
  • It never fails because a feature is missing: absent surfaces simply show as Not configured.
  • Counts are best-effort and reflect the data currently in the system.