A dated log of dataset and interface work on Shibari Atlas: what was added, corrected or fixed. Entries are written by hand, in batches, not generated from commit history.
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Format
This is a project changelog, not a news feed — it covers changes to this dataset and this interface, not the wider shibari/kinbaku scene. Each entry groups a period of work into three kinds of change: Dataset (people, entities and connections added or corrected), Research (naming, lineage or classification calls revised), and Interface (features and fixes to the site itself).
Entries are written by hand on an irregular schedule, not generated automatically. For the editorial rules behind the dataset, see methodology; for the public references behind it, see sources.
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Log
Jun 29 – Jul 7, 2026
Historical event backfill and archive-roster linking
A weeklong pass added nine years of historical festival occurrences and cross-linked festival rosters against the archive-people list, alongside a batch of interface fixes to the lineage canvas.
DatasetBackfilled festival and camp occurrences from 2009–2017 across ShibariCon, BoundCon, EURIX, RopeFest, LFRA, Onawa Asobi, Rope Spirit, Helsinki Shibari, Bondage Expo Dallas, Shi Fest Ukraine, Rome Bondage Week, La Nuit des Cordes, BOUND London, Bound In Boston, ROPECRAFT, Prague Shibari Festival, MoscowKnot and RopeDay.
ResearchCross-linked festival rosters against the archive-people list for Rome Bondage Week, Prague, BOUND London, ROPECRAFT, Helsinki Shibari and Shi Fest Ukraine, plus a daily wave of reviewed public leads and studio profiles.
InterfaceFixed overlapping parallel edges between the same node pair, clipped event-card titles and a relation-list title squeeze in the side panel; tightened mobile Hyper Focus selection behaviour; removed a duplicate kana suffix from display names.
Shipped a one-hop connection view for the Lineage canvas, then hardened it for iPhone, alongside a Kinbaku Today article audit and school-label clarifications.
InterfaceAdded Hyper Focus, a shareable one-hop connection view for any Lineage node with era-lane layout and always-on edge notes; hardened it against iPhone out-of-memory crashes with viewport-sized canvas overlays; widened the mobile touch target for the side-panel focus toggle to 44px; improved event-detail Programme section styling.
DatasetAudited the Kinbaku Today article family (galleries, announcements, reviews, interviews, history translations and sources) and sanitized public bio wording.
ResearchClarified the Kinoko school label and the Ichinawa-ryu alias.
Rebuilt the About, Methodology and Sources pages into a connected reference set, gave the interactive map a full visual redesign, and polished lineage graph performance and accessibility alongside a wave of new profile and event data.
InterfaceRedesigned the About, Methodology and Sources pages into a connected reference set with a live searchable source index, evidence-level explainer cards and an FAQ; gave the interactive map a dark basemap, category-coloured pins and clustering, a collapsible country-grouped sidebar and a draggable mobile bottom sheet, now defaulting to living, currently active people and places with country-level entries grouped under a shared pin; and added dedicated pages for individual event occurrences with structured event data for search engines.
InterfacePolished the lineage graph with a distinct line style for teacher-certification relationships, smoother pinch and mouse-wheel zoom, and faster initial load via on-demand bio fetching, alongside broader keyboard and screen-reader accessibility across the map and lineage pages and a fix for a narrow-column layout bug on event programme entries without a listed time.
DatasetFilled in missing rosters for a number of upcoming event occurrences and expanded coverage with new studio, teacher and community-platform profiles across Japan, continental Europe and Latin America, plus contextual background entries on historical eras and community and safer-space infrastructure.
ResearchReclassified a batch of teaching relationships from a general instructor-authorization label into a dedicated certification category across the lineage graph.
Redesigned the yearly events page, added a site-wide beta badge, and fixed map projection and structured-data issues.
InterfaceRedesigned /events/[year] into the V1 Timeline Ledger; added a site-wide BETA badge linking to the About beta-status section; fixed Search Console structured-data errors on /sources/, /methodology/ and /about/; widened map longitude bounds so antimeridian locations (e.g. New Zealand) center correctly, and fixed popup auto-pan and pin spacing.
DatasetAdded a generated source ledger and a batch of community and studio profile entries.
After a week of launch preparation, Shibari Atlas opened to the public for the first time — a live site on its own domain with search-engine visibility, mobile support, and a published data methodology behind it.
InterfaceOpened Shibari Atlas to the public at bakushimap.org, with per-entity profile pages, a sitemap, a custom 404 page, and social-preview images generated from the live map; added an About overlay that opens automatically on first visit alongside dedicated Methodology and Sources pages explaining the project's inclusion criteria and sourcing standards; and built out mobile support with pinch-zoom, touch panning, and a collapsible filter bar with a bottom-sheet detail panel.
DatasetSubstantially expanded regional coverage — Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish and other national scenes, including diaspora connections following the war in Ukraine — and added many new festival and event nodes worldwide, plus new studios, podcasts and community platforms as tracked sources, alongside a new authored-works category linking writers to their published books.
ResearchPublished a public data methodology covering inclusion criteria, source standards, and a narrow policy for adult-media sources tied to a specific rope-related professional role; reclassified roughly 40 entries from a generic "venue" type into distinct event and studio categories and gave adult-media production companies their own category separate from teaching studios; and established a policy for handling self-reported corrections from people who appear in the dataset.