Corpus · the verified library
The research your instincts wish they were built on.
Seventy-six cultural profiles. Eight religious traditions. Healthcare briefs, films, and collections curated by industry — every page written by named researchers and reviewed with the communities it describes. This is the knowledge base behind the Cultural Atlas, open to your whole team.
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Table of contents
- Core Concepts
- Greetings
- Religion
- Family
- Etiquette
- Communication
- Business Culture
Core Concepts
Author Nina Evason
Published January 2019 · Updated April 2026
While sometimes initially reserved when first meeting people, Romanians are known for being hospitable, warm, animated and opinionated people with a good sense of humour…
named author · reviewed with the community described · sources, revision history and a correction pathway · the same entry the scan reads
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What is in it
A decade of reviewed research, in one place.
Not scraped, not synthesised, not inferred from the open web. Written, sourced, reviewed and maintained.
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Cultural profiles
Seventy-six cultures, each written to twelve areas: core concepts, greetings, family, naming, dates of significance, etiquette, communication and business culture.
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Religious traditions
Eight traditions, five Abrahamic and three Asian, each covering ten areas from doctrine and rituals to law and ethics, social structure, key dates, and how to interact sensitively.
03
Healthcare briefs
Nine migrant and refugee community groups, each read across eleven areas including approaches to care, patient-practitioner communication, mental health, family decision-making and consent, aged care, and death and dying.
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Film and video
Hundreds of short films, animations and interviews for training and learning, indexed to the same knowledge base, with transcripts and supporting resources. Each is filmed in studio and reviewed by independent experts.
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Workplace and inclusion
Material built for internal programs: onboarding, awareness campaigns, learning and development. Topics run from neurodiversity and disability to gender equity, generational diversity and modern slavery.
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Quantitative context
Statistics compiled from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and World Bank into charts and demographic maps, alongside customised news feeds from SBS, so context is not carried by narrative alone.
Collections and kits
The library, cut down to your work.
You rarely need the whole library. You need the part that applies to the work in front of you.
Collections
A collection is a curated set of Corpus content for one industry or theme — healthcare, government, financial services, media, workplace. It puts the relevant profiles, briefs, films and datasets in one place, and it is the same content the scan reads, so your team is never working from a different source than the check.
Kits
Everything for a use case in one box: the verified resources and assets, ready to deploy to a team. A kit is how a function starts working from shared evidence without a rollout project.
- Contains
- Health-belief briefs across cultures and faiths · care-expectation profiles · interpreter and consent guidance · patient-communication films
- Powers
- The healthcare lenses used when Resonance scans a patient letter or a screening campaign
- Used by
- Clinical communications, health promotion, learning and development, inclusion teams
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How it is made
Provenance is the product.
A knowledge base is only worth what its weakest source is worth. Ours is built the slow way, and the process is the reason the findings hold up when someone senior pushes back.
Written by named researchers. Every entry has an author, not an algorithm. Reviewed with the communities it describes. People from the group being written about read it before it publishes, and their objections change the text. Versioned and correctable. Entries carry revision history, and there is a route to challenge anything that is wrong.
That is also why the corpus can be cited. A finding that says “this conflicts with a documented mechanism, here is the entry, here is the source, here is the confidence” can be taken into a board meeting. An unsourced opinion cannot.
The rule that governs everything
We identify mechanisms, never traits.
We never write that a group believes something. We write that a specific framing conflicts with a documented mechanism — which is more prevalent in a cohort, varies by generation, acculturation and context, and is always cited.
The test we apply: if a reviewer from that community would wince, it is a stereotype and it does not ship. If they would ask for the citation, it is a mechanism.
Access
Open to a person. Built for a team.
Individuals
Read the library and ask Mo questions against it. The public Cultural Atlas has reached 47 million readers on this foundation.
Teams
Shared collections, kits deployed to a group, and a common reference so a whole function works from the same evidence.
Organisations
Org-wide access with user grouping, plus the option to run the same sources as checks in Resonance. Documentation for ICT and security review is available.
See what it contains, for your sector.
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