E01: Explore NLI archive leads — Hannah Senesh, Tchernichovsky, Jabotinsky

[shaypal5]

Summary

Exploration issue: investigate the National Library of Israel (NLI) archive leads currently catalogued as collection-level or item-level leads in the upstream scans repo (HeOCR/public-domain-hand-written-hebrew-scans). The goal is to determine which items are ingest-ready and open a concrete C issue for each confirmed writer.

Sources to investigate

source_id (upstream)	Subject	Notes from upstream source description
nli__hannah_senesh_archive	Hannah Senesh (1921–1944)	Collection-level lead; diaries, manuscripts, correspondence
nli__nnl_archive_al997009912248505171	Hannah Senesh	Handwritten Hebrew diary + play draft, 1941–1944 — strong item-level seed
nli__nnl_archive_al997009831775705171	Hannah Senesh	Handwritten draft speech, Girls' Agricultural Training Farm
nli__nnl_archive_al997009912248405171	Hannah Senesh	Notebook of Hebrew poems — likely continuous handwriting samples
nli__nnl_archive_al997009912248705171	Hannah Senesh	Mixed Hebrew/Hungarian diary, 1938–1941
nli__nnl_archive_al997009761278705171	Hannah Senesh	Pocket diary — language/script details need verification
nli__nli_aleph990025684880205171	Unknown	Hebrew-script manuscript diary, PD rights claim — creation date needs verification
nli__shaul_tchernichovsky_archive_items	Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875–1943)	Receipts, literary drafts, notebooks, memorandum drafts
jabotinsky__zeev_jabotinsky_archive	Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880–1940)	Handwritten notes and drafts; includes Hebrew Accent poem draft

Verification checklist for each source

For each item, confirm all of the following before opening a C issue:

• License: NLI digitisation licenses vary. The underlying manuscript's rights must be confirmed separately from the digitised image's license. Check NLI's open-data policy (batch CC0/CC-BY release, 2023) against per-item restrictions. Confirm the license string maps to an entry in LICENSE_BASIS_MAP.
• Image availability: Is the image accessible at a stable, public URL or IIIF endpoint that can be registered in the upstream scans repo? Can it be fetched without authentication?
• Image resolution: The scan must be large enough that a single letter crop is ≥ 15×15 px at native resolution. Note the actual pixel dimensions.
• Attribution requirements: CC-BY items require attribution_required: true, attribution_text, and attribution_url on every derived entry.
• Date-of-death check: All subjects above died before 1956; life+70 is clear in most jurisdictions. For LicenseRef-Public-Domain-Israel, confirm the NLI's own rights statement aligns.
• Script quality: Is the handwriting Hebrew-dominant and legible enough to yield usable letter crops?

Suggested investigation order

1. Hannah Senesh — highest value. She died 1944 (executed); her Hebrew diaries and poetry notebooks represent clear, modern Hebrew cursive from 1938–1944. Multiple item-level seeds already in upstream. Confirm NLI's CC0 batch covers these items.
2. Shaul Tchernichovsky — major Hebrew poet (1875–1943), contemporary of Bialik and Rachel. Literary drafts and notebooks likely yield clean per-letter crops.
3. Ze'ev Jabotinsky — prolific writer but politically significant institutional provenance (Jabotinsky Institute, Tel Aviv). Rights may be more complex — investigate last.

Definition of done

This issue is closed when every listed source has one of:

• A new C issue opened (e.g. C07 for Hannah Senesh, C08 for Tchernichovsky, etc.)
• A comment on this issue documenting the blocking reason (license incompatible, resolution too low, image not publicly accessible, etc.)

Do not open a C issue without completing the verification checklist above for that source.