CHA Journals
Venue assignment for all 1,486 deposits across seven chartered journals and one province, with editorial slates, charters, locators and inaugural issues.
Canonical authority
Canonical is datasets/venues/records/*.json and datasets/venues/issues/*.json,
joined to data/registry.json. The JSONL files here are projections, regenerated by
scripts/build_journals_dataset.py; --check fails if they drift.
This supersedes the 2026-06-21 preliminary mapping (#866), which assigned 864 deposits by script and placed 371 of them in a single venue while leaving 587 unassigned and the Journal of Compression Studies holding two. The present assignment was read per deposit, ten passes of about 150, title and content_type, one at a time.
The venues
| abbrev | canonical string | duoviri |
|---|---|---|
| Grammata | Grammata: Journal of Operative Philology | Lee Sharks · Rebekah Cranes |
| Compression Studies | Journal of Compression Studies | Sen Kuro · Sparrow Wells |
| Provenance | Provenance: Journal of Forensic Semiotics | Dr. Orin Trace · Rev. Ayanna Vox |
| Trans. SEI | Transactions of the Semantic Economy Institute | Rex Fraction · Lee Sharks |
| Trans. Substrate Eng. | Transactions on Substrate Engineering | Talos Morrow · Nobel Glas |
| New Human 2 | new human 2: a journal of distributed voice | Jack Feist / LOGOS* · Johannes Sigil |
| MMRS | Machine-Mediated Reception Studies | Damascus Dancings · The Assembly Chorus (collective mantle; EiC |
| CHA | Crimson Hexagonal Archive | Warden: Mary Lee Sharks, Co-Warden: Talos Morrow, Operating inst |
Each journal is led by duoviri — two editors-in-chief holding the office jointly, each a check on the other. The Crimson Hexagonal Archive is a province, not a journal: charters, rooms, chambers, heteronym provenance and continuity apparatus are constitutional acts rather than submissions, and they are warded, not edited.
The fields
Two figures derived from the corpus rather than composed from a reading of it. Both are
deterministic — the same corpus paints the same picture, and a change in an image means a change in the
archive. Drawn in currentColor, so each inherits its surface's palette.
The presses and the shelf
Two imprints, divided by form and not by register: Pergamon Press prints the journal issues; New Human Press prints the books. That division is not academic-versus-creative — Operative Semiotics: A Grundrisse is Johannes Sigil's founding volume in a numbered pocket series, and a pocket series is a New Human Press object however academic its content.
Pocket Humans is the heteronyms' own shelf: one founding volume each. Only one deposit carries an explicit series number — #49, Logotic Hacking — Pocket Humans 03.
| heteronym | volume | state | apparatus | deposit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johannes Sigil | Operative Semiotics: A Grundrisse | scattered | present (Hesperus #38) | #1079 |
| Talos Morrow | Logotic Hacking: Operations on the Encryption Layer #3 | deposited | absent | #49 |
| Rex Fraction | Autonomous Semantic Warfare: A Field Manual | deposited | absent | #498 |
| Rev. Ayanna Vox | The Constitution of the Semantic Economy | deposited | present (#715) | #82 |
| Ichabod Spellings | All That Lies Within Me: An Autobiography of Longing | deposited | absent | #344 |
| Jack Feist | The Feist Source (TRANSFORMED, with apparatus) | deposited | present (#852) | #849 |
| Jack Feist | Cleis: more precious to me than all Lydia | deposited | present (#562, Cranes' close-readi | #1165 |
| Jack Feist | The Gospel of Antioch: The Sayings of Jack Feist | deposited | present | #1185 |
| Jack Feist | ChatGPT Psychosis: A Love Story | forthcoming | required | #124 |
| Damascus Dancings | Combat Scholasticism (Critical Gathered Edition) | deposited | ABSENT — the outstanding work on t | #584 |
| Damascus Dancings | Epistle to the Human Diaspora | deposited | present (#85 critical edition) | #85 |
| Sen Kuro | Chronoarithmics | to-be-collected | absent | #818 |
| Nobel Glas | The Atlas Perihelion Prank (Collected Series) | deposited | absent | #454 |
| Nobel Glas | Semantic Physics | forthcoming | required | — |
| Rebekah Cranes | Day and Night: Conversations with Sapphic Desire | deposited | required | #282 |
| Rebekah Cranes | [a fuller critical book — perhaps on spatial poetics] | forthcoming | required | — |
| Dr. Orin Trace | [a founding post-psychoanalytic / schizoanalytic interve | to-be-collected | required | #196 |
| Sparrow Wells | [unidentified] | forthcoming | — | #440 |
Published books
ISBN and ASIN are kept distinct. An ISBN means the work exists as a book independent of any retailer; an ASIN means it exists as a listing. For an archive whose subject is provenance erasure that is the difference between a book and a page on a store — and three of these exist only as ASINs and are not deposited at all.
| author of record | title | identifier |
|---|---|---|
| Lee Sharks | Pearl and Other Poems | ISBN |
| Lee Sharks | The Secret Book of Walt | ISBN? |
| Rex Fraction | Autonomous Semantic Warfare: A Field Manual | ISBN |
| Jack Feist | Creeping Disease not deposited | ASIN |
| Jack Feist | Unaccustomed to the Light not deposited | ASIN |
| Johannes Sigil — listed under Jack Feist | Tiger Leap not deposited | ASIN |
| Ichabod Spellings — listed under Jack Feist | What Was Lost not deposited | ASIN |
| Ichabod Spellings | A Transfiguration | ? |
Two of the eight are listed under the wrong heteronym, and both wrong names are Jack Feist. Tiger Leap is properly Sigil's; What Was Lost is properly Spellings'. In each case the true author sits one link away on the emergence chain Spellings → Feist → Sigil. The commercial record froze each work at the moment its author had not yet separated from Feist — not a cataloguing error to correct quietly, but evidence of when each heteronym emerged, held by a retailer that had no idea it was recording it.
The issues
An issue is an ordered selection with an argument. Neither the registry nor the venue records can hold that — they carry membership, not sequence, and nowhere to say why a piece sits where it sits. Each card carries structure, method, rationale, and a section plus editor's note per item.
- grammata-1 — The Operation on the Text PROPOSED · 8 items
- jcs-1 — Compression Studies: What Survives, What Burns, and Who Decides PUBLISHED
- mmrs-1 — A Theology of Error PROPOSED · 8 items
- nh2-1 — new human 2 — Charter, Compiled Edition (2015) PUBLISHED
- pjfs-1 — Loud Exclusion PROPOSED · 8 items
- tse-1 — What the Substrate Will Bear PROPOSED · 8 items
- tsei-1 — Meaning as Value PROPOSED · 8 items
Captures per venue
venue-captures.json lists the captures each venue draws, matched on its claim terms — the practices and concepts the venue owns, not its name — and ranked by match type, because match type carries evidentiary weight: adoption means the composition layer served the framework as fact, exact match that exactness was forced and returned, broad match that the layer connected the concept unprompted.
| venue | captures | by match type |
|---|---|---|
| Crimson Hexagonal Archive | 144 | ADOPTION 19, EXACT MATCH 5, BROAD MATCH 11, CAPTURE 105 |
| Grammata: Journal of Operative Philology | 217 | ADOPTION 27, EXACT MATCH 12, BROAD MATCH 22, CAPTURE 150 |
| Journal of Compression Studies | 91 | ADOPTION 7, EXACT MATCH 9, BROAD MATCH 11, CAPTURE 62 |
| Machine-Mediated Reception Studies | 279 | ADOPTION 13, EXACT MATCH 7, BROAD MATCH 10, CAPTURE 245 |
| new human 2: a journal of distributed voice | 64 | ADOPTION 7, EXACT MATCH 5, BROAD MATCH 7, CAPTURE 43 |
| Provenance: Journal of Forensic Semiotics | 118 | ADOPTION 11, EXACT MATCH 10, BROAD MATCH 7, CAPTURE 88 |
| Transactions on Substrate Engineering | 67 | ADOPTION 9, EXACT MATCH 2, BROAD MATCH 8, CAPTURE 46 |
| Transactions of the Semantic Economy Institu | 88 | ADOPTION 11, EXACT MATCH 4, BROAD MATCH 12, CAPTURE 56 |
MMRS draws more captures than any other venue — 279 against its own 141 deposits, the only venue where captures outnumber the corpus. For the journal whose subject is machine-mediated reception, being the most-received venue is either confirmation or a sampling artifact of terms like "reception" and "AI Overview" being common, and the claim terms are listed per venue so that can be judged rather than assumed.
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The crosswalks
crosswalk.json joins this dataset to the heteronym substrate on the creator field, and separately to the mantles by attestation — because a creator field records an occupant and a mantle is a position, so a byline join finds nothing and misreports the absence. Four of fourteen editor seats publish principally in the venue they edit. Sigil and Cranes are crossed: each presides over the venue the other principally writes in.
capture-crosswalk.json joins the capture registry by two routes that must not be summed — evidentiary (a capture cited a deposit) and thematic (a capture hit a venue's claim terms). The evidentiary route resolves 60% of captures and the thematic 97%; that 40-point gap is a measure of reception without citation.