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Research Source Quality Triage
A source triage rubric helps a daily research team choose evidence that is authoritative, current, relevant, and inspectable.
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Headline signal
4 source tests: authority, currency, relevance, inspectability (NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0). Treat this as context for planning, not a guarantee about a particular assistant or operating result.
Analysis and operating context
Methodology: triage is a screening step, not a claim that any source is universally sufficient for every decision.
Prefer the organization that owns the data, standard, study, or policy. Note publication date, update date, method, scope, and limitations in the ledger.
Use secondary commentary to locate context, then follow it back to the primary source for headline claims and tables.
Escalate inaccessible, stale, conflicting, or definitionally ambiguous sources instead of silently substituting a convenient figure.
Sources
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0
- NIST Digital Identity Guidelines
- CISA Secure Our World
- FTC Data Security Guidance
- Google Search Central: Creating helpful content
- Google Search Central: SEO starter guide
- OWASP Top 10
- ILO: Decent work and the care economy
- World Bank: Digital economy
- Philippine Statistics Authority
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Frequently asked questions
What should a manager verify first?
Verify the work definition, source record, reviewer, access limit, and escalation path before assigning the queue.
What belongs with the internal owner?
Keep final approvals, unusual exceptions, payment decisions, and changes to the control rules with the internal owner.