Maple Watch is a discovery layer. It indexes short metadata and links users back to the official publisher for the full record.
Collection Scope
Maple Watch monitors Canadian government, public agency, Parliament, regulator, court, public-board, municipal, and Canada-relevant international sources. International data is labelled as Canada-filtered, Canada profile, or Canada-selectable where the source requires further filtering.
What Gets Stored
Records are normalized into title, publisher, source, jurisdiction, dates, formats, topics, tags, source links, and resource links. New and changed labels are monitoring signals based on when Maple Watch observed metadata, not legal publication dates.
Copyright-Safe Linking
Maple Watch stores short metadata for discovery. It links to documents, videos, transcripts, captions, and datasets at the original source instead of republishing source material. The original publisher remains the official source of record.
Search QA
The project includes a public search QA pack for common research queries such as meeting videos, committee evidence, public accounts, consultations, and Canada-scoped international indicators. These checks run against the generated public snapshot.
Retention
The public site is deployed as static files. A Neon Postgres archive can store daily records, events, source runs, and sync-run metadata for long-term history without exposing database credentials in the browser.
Limits
Source metadata varies. Some records may be delayed, duplicated, misclassified, or missing when source websites change. Always verify important information against the linked original source.