Nothing here needs your permission. All of it improves with your input.
Substriva indexes lawfully published public information whether or not a manager takes part. Taking part does not grant a council favourable treatment, and it cannot remove a sourced record. What it changes is precision, freshness and how quickly a mistake gets fixed.
Claim your manager profile
An officer with a council or agency address can be listed as the contact for their node. A claimed profile gets a named route for corrections, advance notice before a new record about that manager is published, and the ability to register the URLs you would rather we read than the ones we found.
Write to hello@substriva.com.au from an official address with the manager name and the pages you want indexed. A claim is recorded as a submission and reviewed like any other; it does not go live because it was asserted.
Send us the right pages
The most common reason a node is thin is that we searched the wrong part of a large site. Point us at the correct page and the check is re-run and re-dated. Every submission enters the same pipeline as everything else:
- indexed
- source checked
- candidate source
- candidate claim
- reviewer verified
- published
Software can move an item as far as a candidate claim. Only a person can carry it past that, and their name and the date go on the record.
Publish once, be read everywhere
Everything published here is available as a machine-readable feed at /api/feed, including full provenance for each claim and the list of searches that returned nothing. Councils are welcome to consume their own node, and to use it to check what a resident sees.
What makes a page usable
This is not a score and no council is measured against it publicly. It is the checklist we apply to our own reading, published so that a manager can see exactly what turns a document into something citable.
- The document carries a visible publication date
- Undated documents cannot be classified for freshness, so they read as older than they may be.
- Planned works carry dates rather than a season
- A resident asking "when" gets an answer, and we can show a schedule instead of a policy.
- The page states which sites or reserves it covers
- Without a named site a document cannot be attached to a place, so it sits at organisation level only.
- Method is named, including non-chemical methods
- Steam, mechanical and manual programs are frequently invisible in published material even where they are the larger part of the work.
- The same information exists as structured data, not only as a PDF
- A feed or a spreadsheet can be re-read automatically, so it stays current here without anyone re-typing it.
- The page has a stable URL
- A URL that survives a website rebuild keeps every citation to it alive.
Where the index stands today
79 councils indexed, 71 with a completed automated search and 8 blocked by the council's site (a search, not a review of the council's records), 0 reviewer-checked records published. These numbers are computed from the data files at build time and are not adjusted upward for presentation. See the coverage surface or correct a record.