Notes for the Reader

On the temper of this archive.

AI University Catalog is a text-first repository of academic coursework. We publish syllabi, primary readings, and structured lesson plans. No videos, no gamified streaks, no notifications urging you to return within a fortnight.

Every course in the collection is bound together by a rails.json manifest: a plain document listing weeks, labs, activities, and the objectives each activity is meant to satisfy. It is the glue that turns a folder of documents into a course.

To contribute a course of your own, prepare its rails.json manifest and submit it here. The catalog will preview the parsed structure before it is added.

A minimal manifest

{
  "title": "The Architecture of Memory",
  "code": "HUM-219",
  "subject": "Humanities",
  "level": "Intermediate",
  "instructor": "Dr. Frances Yates",
  "description": "A study of mnemotechnics from the ancient Greeks to the digital archives of the present.",
  "artifact_catalog": {
    "activities": [
      {
        "id": "lab_w01",
        "title": "Week 1 Lab",
        "week": 1,
        "concrete_type": "lab",
        "objectives": ["Introduce the memory palace tradition."]
      }
    ]
  }
}