Lab 17: The Map Maintenance Dossier
Design a stewardship pipeline for a map after publication

Map to maintain
Purpose:
Audience:
Data update frequency:
Likely dependencies: data source / basemap / model / API / fonts / hosting
Design decisions worth preserving:
Design decisions allowed to evolve:
What failure would most damage trust:

Describe the deployment chain for this map: prompt, map specification, files, repository, hosting, data sources, and public URL. Identify where intent is documented and where it could be lost.

Design a small maintenance automation pipeline. It should regenerate the map when inputs change, run basic checks, and report what happened. Include checks for layer rendering, legend completeness, credits/disclosures, contrast, broken links, data schema changes, and successful deployment. Do not allow automation to redesign the map.

Create a drift monitoring plan. Watch for visual drift, data drift, technical drift, and semantic drift. Define what counts as acceptable change, what requires human review, and what must be versioned with a note explaining intent.

Create a human review checklist for this map. Include questions no automated check can answer: whether the map still makes sense, whether it feels clear, whether accessibility still feels inclusive, whether the legend read-aloud is understandable, whether keyboard/touch behavior works, and whether public interpretation might have shifted.

Set a sustainable review rhythm. Specify what runs automatically, what gets checked weekly/monthly/quarterly, what triggers an alert, what deserves immediate intervention, and what should be allowed to age gracefully.

Compile my work into a Maintenance Dossier. Include deployment chain, automation routine, drift monitoring, versioning rules, human QA checklist, accessibility care plan, review rhythm, preservation/evolution principles, and graceful obsolescence criteria.