CASE/08 / Real estate
IndiaA usable register from generations of plot records
Digitised and reconciled records provide chain-of-title visibility.
01 / THE ASK
The decision behind the brief.
Create a usable register from a cooperative housing society’s historical plot records.
02 / WHAT WE FOUND
What the work revealed.
Nearly 2,000 plots originally allotted to families displaced by Partition had since been sold, split, inherited and built on. Close to half a million pages included damaged and contradictory records, so digitisation alone could not establish a coherent chain of title.
03 / WHAT WE BUILT
Reconcile the record. Preserve the history.
Digitise the historical record
The source pages were digitised to make the archive available for reconciliation.
Reconcile the chain
Records across changes in ownership and plot history were reconciled into a usable register.
Placeholder for an approved, masked view of the delivered work.
04 / THE RESULT
Digitised and reconciled records provide chain-of-title visibility.
A digitised and reconciled register provides visibility into the chain of title across the plots. It preserves the historical context behind the current record.
[CONFIRM: 70-year span, reconciliation review process and current coverage date]
05 / ENGINEERING DETAILUnder the hood
- Historical plot records
- Digitisation and reconciliation
- Usable chain-of-title register
The supplied material confirms digitisation and reconciliation into a register. [CONFIRM: document linkage, conflict resolution, review controls and spatial database]
Workflow sketch. Unconfirmed components are marked explicitly.
- [CONFIRM: stack]
A GOOD PLACE TO START