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指南
英文原文：Using CityScroll
英文原文：Four ways in, depending on whether you want to learn, do something, understand something, or look something up.
英文原文：Where to start
英文原文：CityScroll gathers public records that New York City agencies already publish — contracts, land-use applications, rules, meetings, civil-service exams, and the agencies and organizations attached to them — and keeps each one linked to the official source it came from.
英文原文：If you are here for the first time, start with the first tutorial. It uses one real search and takes about ten minutes, and you do not need an account or an email address to follow it. The two that follow it trace a single published notice back to the law behind it, and an agency through an organization it pays to one award.
英文原文：If you already have a task, go straight to How to. If a record has left you with a question about what it means, or a word you have not met before, Understand and Reference answer those without asking you to work through a lesson first.
英文原文：Start here
英文原文：Tutorials. A guided walk through one real example, so you finish knowing how a whole journey works rather than what one button does.
- 英文原文：Explore housing across city records 英文原文：I want to learn how this works — where do I begin?
- 英文原文：Trace a notice to the duty behind it 英文原文：How do I get from a published notice to the law that required it?
- 英文原文：Trace an award and keep the trail 英文原文：How do I follow an agency to a vendor to an award, and keep that path?
英文原文：How to…
英文原文：Short directions for a task you already have in mind, with the labels you will actually see.
- 英文原文：Find and narrow records 英文原文：How do I find records about my topic and narrow them down?
- 英文原文：Follow a search and manage your updates 英文原文：How do I get told when new records match what I care about?
- Follow a Community Board 英文原文：How do I watch what happens at my community board?
- 英文原文：Put dates in your calendar 英文原文：How do I get these dates into my own calendar?
- 英文原文：Read a land-use project's next step and documents 英文原文：What happens next on this project, and where are its documents?
- 英文原文：Check the evidence behind a connection 英文原文：Why does this say two records are connected?
- 按某日查看记录 英文原文：What did an agency's record set look like on a given day?
- 英文原文：Collect records, add notes, and export them 英文原文：How do I keep a set of records together and take them with me?
- 英文原文：Read a budget request and the answer to it 英文原文：What did my community board ask the city for, and what did the city say back?
- 英文原文：Observe City Government 英文原文：What can I watch, and how do I prepare to observe it?
- 英文原文：Request Trial Observation 英文原文：How do I ask to observe an administrative or disciplinary trial?
英文原文：Understand
英文原文：Background on what a record does and does not tell you, and where the limits of the data are.
- 英文原文：What a public record tells you 英文原文：Does this record mean the city decided something?
- 英文原文：How records are connected 英文原文：What does a connection between two records actually claim?
- 英文原文：What dates and blanks mean 英文原文：Why is this blank, and which date am I looking at?
- 英文原文：Flags and historical patterns 英文原文：What does this flag mean, and how far can I trust it?
英文原文：Reference
英文原文：Definitions, controls, and coverage to look up while you work.
- 英文原文：Glossary 英文原文：What does this term mean?
- 英文原文：Controls and what they give you 英文原文：What can this control do, and what do I get back?
- 英文原文：Where the records come from 英文原文：Where does this come from, and what is covered?
英文原文：About this guide
英文原文：Every article carries the date an editor last checked it against the live site. That date is written by hand after the check. It does not move when the site is rebuilt.
英文原文：Choose a language to read the guide. Translations use the same control names as the rest of CityScroll. Official names, identifiers and quoted source text keep their original language.
英文原文：Something here wrong or missing? The feedback form on the About page reaches the people who maintain it, and needs no account.