First Look
Six proof states keep observation, inference, context, question, source, and uncertainty separate.
Private offline field companion
Look closely. Keep the gap visible.
Proofroom Cambridge helps adults, educators, volunteers, and family companions separate observation from inference while examining fictional objects, photographs, maps, newspaper layouts, oral-history situations, and provenance chains.
Application
Proofroom Cambridge
Native Android · Version 1.0.0
Organization
Cambridge Historical Society Incorporated
24 Victoria Street, Cambridge 3434, New Zealand
Network behaviour
No connection required
The app does not request Internet access or transmit app-created state.
Object Witness
Material, construction, wear, repair, custody, absence, and a next question—without handling instructions.
Photo Corners
A movable fictional crop demonstrates how framing changes what a photograph appears to say.
Map Layers
Abstract overlays reveal mismatched names, routes, boundaries, scales, and blank spaces without becoming a real map.
Listening Bench
Consent, interviewer influence, memory, transcription, context, and living-person sensitivity—without recording.
Provenance Chain
Source, Custody, Context, Gap, and Next Question remain distinct and rearrangeable.
Story Draft Studio
Fixed fragments produce an evidence-aware reading while keeping unsupported claims out.
Question Tray
A small set of fixed questions may be kept locally and cleared in one action; there is no free text.
Organization context
A companion to curiosity—not a collection catalogue
Cambridge Historical Society Incorporated owns the collections and operates Cambridge Museum with support from the community and Waipā District Council. Proofroom Cambridge does not reproduce, search, authenticate, or alter those collections. Its exercises are fictional and teach a careful method for asking what another source could test.
Read the identity and scope statement