Getting started
Getting started with Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search
What Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search is for, who uses it, what you need before you start, and your first steps.
Applies to Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search as it works today. Moraph updates the platform continuously, and this page is reviewed when it changes.
Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search indexes decades of diplomatic reporting so officers can search by meaning as well as by keyword, and find earlier cables, memoranda and reporting on a country, issue or negotiation. Every document carries its classification, caveats and handling markings, and search results are filtered by each user's clearance and need to know before anything is shown. Summaries and suggested related documents cite their sources, and every search and view is recorded for records and security staff.
What it is for
Foreign affairs agencies hold decades of cables and reporting that bear directly on current decisions, but much of it is hard to find. Older holdings sit in separate archives with inconsistent metadata, keyword search misses documents that describe the same issue in different words, and officers often rely on colleagues' memory of what was reported before. Access rules make this harder: a search tool that ignores classification, caveats and need to know cannot be used, and one that applies them inconsistently creates risk.
- Historical reporting is spread across archives with inconsistent metadata and formats
- Keyword search misses documents that use different terms for the same issue
- Access controls for classification, caveats and need to know are applied unevenly across tools
- There is little record of who searched for and read sensitive holdings
Who uses it
- Foreign affairs agencies and their regional and functional bureaus
- Desk officers, analysts and policy staff who need historical context
- Records management and historian offices that maintain the archive
- Information security and classification management staff
- Inspectors general and oversight staff who review access
Before you start
- Your organization licenses Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search from Moraph.
- A Moraph client account in that organization, signed in.
- Access to Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search in Moraph Apps, given by an administrator in the Moraph Portal under People and access.
- For setup: the product administrator role.
Steps to get started
Sign in at app.moraph.com with your Moraph account.
Open Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search from the launcher. The first time anyone opens it, its workspace is created from the default described in Workspace reference.
Check your role: what you can see and do depends on it. See Roles and permissions.
Product administrators: work through Set up Diplomatic Cable Archive & Search before your team starts.
Everyone else: start with Everyday tasks.
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