Complete
From Question to Evidence Map
Frame, decompose, discover, evaluate, test coverage, and establish a defensible stopping rule.
Working Edition 0.2
Open access
Last reviewed 3 August 2026
A living scholarly resource
From Question
to Evidence
A Living Field Guide for Qualitative Research
A practical, modular guide to turning an uncertain research question into a reviewable chain of sources, decisions, evidence, and claims.
- 01Question
- 02Concepts
- 03Sources
- 04Corpus
- 05Claims
Current edition
A versioned working book
Complete modules are published for use and criticism. Planned chapters remain visibly planned, and substantive revisions receive numbered releases.
- Complete modules
- 2
- Reader resources
- 12
- Available formats
- HTML · PDF · Word · Markdown
Contents
Current modules
Each module combines method, a worked example, an exercise, a guided AI workflow, an integrity checkpoint, and a durable research artifact.
Complete
Literature as Evidence
Build a literature corpus, compare claims, preserve provenance, synthesize, audit, and stop.
New chapter
Review Articles and Meta-Analysis in Transition
Choose a review form, preserve heterogeneity, and design reusable research skills, bounded agents, human gates, and versioned project context.
New chapter
Building Event Databases with AI
Accelerate source discovery, event resolution, dynamic coding, validation, and explicit Bayesian updating.
New chapter
Historical Sources as Evidence
Preserve the chain from archival witness and diplomatic transcription to source-bound observation, Historical Claim, and downstream audit.
Pilot lab
Skills and Agents Lab
Download and inspect the literature-discovery skill, read-only scout agent, project-context template, synthetic benchmarks, and failure report.
New chapter
From Notes to Research Infrastructure
Combine durable PKM with bounded AI through persistent context, provenance, verification, human gates, and a seven-stage research loop.
New chapter
Writing by Voice, Revising by Ear
Move from AI dictation to verified prose, then use multilingual text-to-speech to prepare location-coded revision notes.
Planned
Collection as Evidence
Connect permissions, capture, provenance, transformation, preservation, and corpus handoff.
Editorial policy
What “living” means
Different parts of the book change at different speeds. Every public page identifies its place in the current edition; material that may drift is dated and reviewed.
Core method
Epistemological commitments, ethics, provenance, and evidence evaluation change slowly through reviewed releases.
Workflows and resources
Prompts, templates, examples, and teaching materials improve after testing, feedback, and documented pilots.
Tool guidance
AI systems, interfaces, prices, and privacy terms receive dates and explicit warnings when they may be stale.
Open review
Help test the method
Report a point of confusion, test a workflow, suggest a missing perspective, or describe the artifact your research produced. Feedback is reviewed editorially and documented in later versions.