{"dep": 50, "title": "THE COMPRESSION ARSENAL v2.1 — A Comprehensive Catalogue of Compression and Compression-Survival Technologies Developed in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (EA-COM", "date": "2026-04-03", "para": 67, "sent": 134, "sentence": "This is \"semantic provenance\" — what C2PA cannot provide.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0001"}
{"dep": 50, "title": "THE COMPRESSION ARSENAL v2.1 — A Comprehensive Catalogue of Compression and Compression-Survival Technologies Developed in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (EA-COM", "date": "2026-04-03", "para": 183, "sent": 463, "sentence": "The Gravity Well Protocol is open (like C2PA).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Gravity Well", "Gravity Well Protocol"], "cand_id": "O0002"}
{"dep": 50, "title": "THE COMPRESSION ARSENAL v2.1 — A Comprehensive Catalogue of Compression and Compression-Survival Technologies Developed in the Crimson Hexagonal Archive (EA-COM", "date": "2026-04-03", "para": 183, "sent": 464, "sentence": "The Gravity Well Engine is the paid reference implementation (like Adobe for C2PA).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Gravity Well"], "cand_id": "O0003"}
{"dep": 95, "title": "Provenance Alignment: Attribution Survival as a Substrate Condition for Safe AI Knowledge Composition", "date": "2026-05-05", "para": 63, "sent": 180, "sentence": "Existing technical work on language-model watermarking (Kirchenbauer et al. 2023) and on cross-format content provenance standards (C2PA 2024) provides starting points for the public and machine-readable layers; the design space for the escrowed and internal-audit layers merits independent study.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["model watermarking"], "cand_id": "O0004"}
{"dep": 98, "title": "Distributed Compute Is Not Distributed Intelligence: A Competitive Analysis of the DePIN Landscape and the Missing Civic-Semantic Layer (v3.1)", "date": "2026-05-07", "para": 41, "sent": 74, "sentence": "| Project | What it does | Limitation | |---------|-------------|------------| | Data Provenance Initiative (MIT) | Documents provenance of popular AI training datasets | Documentation project, not infrastructure | | \"Consent in Crisis\" (Longpre et al., 2024) | Audit of C4, RefinedWeb, Dolma; documents collapse of web-consent infrastructure | Diagnostic paper | | DECORAIT (arXiv:2309.14400) | Decentralized opt-in/out registry for AI training (visual), C2PA + DLT | Visual only; opt-in/out (reactive), not contribution (proactive) | | Codatta | On-chain data lineage for ML | Data-marketplace orientation; doesn't address governance of training mixture | | Data DAOs | Community governance of datasets via blockchain | Token-financialized — back to capital determining access |", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["What it does"], "cand_id": "O0005"}
{"dep": 121, "title": "AI-Native Intellectual Biography A New Genre of AI-Mediated Reception: Provenance, Heteronymy, and the Archive That Outpaced Its Author", "date": "2026-05-22", "para": 23, "sent": 58, "sentence": "**Provenance and attribution studies** in digital environments — C2PA, the Data Provenance Initiative, W3C PROV — have focused on attribution loss in AI outputs.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Provenance and attribution studies"], "cand_id": "O0006"}
{"dep": 127, "title": "Inscriptions That Survive the Tokenizer: SPXI-TLP v2.2 — The Training-Layer Provenance Protocol", "date": "2026-05-25", "para": 11, "sent": 38, "sentence": "non-claim 2 : This protocol does NOT claim that robots.txt, TDMRep, C2PA, JSON-LD in <head>, or zero-width Unicode watermarking are useless.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["does NOT", "does NOT claim"], "cand_id": "O0007"}
{"dep": 127, "title": "Inscriptions That Survive the Tokenizer: SPXI-TLP v2.2 — The Training-Layer Provenance Protocol", "date": "2026-05-25", "para": 76, "sent": 198, "sentence": "There is a c2pa-text extension (Rust/Python/TypeScript/Go) that embeds C2PA manifests into plain text using Unicode Variation Selectors (U+FE00..U+FE0F, U+E0100..U+E01EF).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["plain text"], "cand_id": "O0008"}
{"dep": 208, "title": "Provenance Documentation: SEM-PROBE-2025-12", "date": "2026-01-02", "para": 17, "sent": 20, "sentence": "| Standard | Compliance Method | |---|---| | **C2PA (Content Provenance)** | This document serves as machine-readable provenance data | | **Genre Labeling (AI Safety)** | Explicitly tagged as \"Linguistic Experiment\" / \"Performative Theory\" | | **Defensive Publishing** | Public disclosure in technical documentation creates prior art | | **Speech Act Theory Framing** | Phrase classified as performative utterance per J.L.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Defensive Publishing", "machine-readable provenance data", "performative utterance", "prior art", "Speech Act Theory", "Speech Act Theory Framing"], "cand_id": "O0009"}
{"dep": 247, "title": "PROBE-RESULT-004: The Liquidation of \"Semantic Economy\" How the Framework Was Captured by What It Names", "date": "2026-01-05", "para": 333, "sent": 453, "sentence": "- **The Mechanism:** It attaches \"Content Credentials\"—tamper-evident metadata secured by the same cryptography as the web—directly to your work. - **Your Strategy:** Major platforms like Google and Adobe now use these credentials to inform policy enforcement.", "classes": ["Content Credentials (the C2PA specification the program certifies conformance to)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["The Mechanism", "Your Strategy"], "class_basis": {"Content Credentials (the C2PA specification the program certifies conformance to)": "field: B1 (c2pa.org/conformance: 'The C2PA Conformance Program provides assurance that products adhere to the Content Credentials specification'); B2 (CAI open-source docs: 'helps to ensure that products that read and create Content Credentials are compliant with the C2PA Content Credentials specification'); B7 (C2PA Conformance Program v0.2, §2.11 and §6.1: the evaluation of products 'as adhering to the normative requirements of the C2PA Content Credentials specification'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'At the heart of the C2PA specification is the Content Credential, a cryptographically bound structure that records an asset's provenance')"}, "cand_id": "O0010"}
{"dep": 499, "title": "AUTONOMOUS SEMANTIC WARFARE A Field Manual for Meaning in the Age of Platform Capture", "date": "2026-02-20", "para": 860, "sent": 2553, "sentence": "Technical approaches exist (C2PA standards, digital watermarking) but none has achieved sufficient adoption to function as infrastructure — a public good that market competition alone will not produce.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["public good"], "cand_id": "O0011"}
{"dep": 615, "title": "THE $650 BILLION GAP: Physical Infrastructure, Semantic Governance, and the Architecture of Compression-Survival", "date": "2026-03-30", "para": 35, "sent": 105, "sentence": "When a 5,000-word article becomes a 200-word AI Overview, C2PA cannot tell you what was lost.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["AI Overview"], "cand_id": "O0012"}
{"dep": 621, "title": "Gravity Well Protocol Specification v1.0 — Governed Continuity for AI-Mediated Content (EA-GW-SPEC-01)", "date": "2026-04-01", "para": 150, "sent": 257, "sentence": "**Against C2PA:** C2PA authenticates media.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Against C2PA"], "cand_id": "O0013"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 0, "sent": 0, "sentence": "# Provenance After AI ## Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["Artifact Authenticity", "Metadata Packet", "Provenance After AI", "Semantic Provenance"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0014"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 1, "sent": 1, "sentence": "**Packet ID:** EA-MPAI-PROVENANCE-01 **Version:** v1.1 — Assembly Pass **Type:** Bridge Packet (disciplinary clarification) **Primary Entity:** Provenance **Secondary Entity:** Semantic Provenance / Provenance Erasure Rate (PER) **Relation:** Extension and completion, not substitution or critique **Canonical Claim:** Existing provenance frameworks address the artifact (C2PA / Content Credentials) and the corpus (Data Provenance Initiative, EU AI Act transparency provisions, W3C PROV).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Canonical Claim", "Packet ID", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "Semantic Provenance"], "cand_id": "O0015"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 5, "sent": 9, "sentence": "The first dimension — **artifact authenticity** — has a maturing technical infrastructure.", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["artifact authenticity"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0016"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 9, "sent": 23, "sentence": "C2PA's v2.1 *ingredient assertions* (which can record that an output was derived from specific inputs) are an early step in this direction, but they are optional, under-adopted, and operate at the level of file derivation, not concept lineage, intellectual debt, or framework membership.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["derived from"], "cand_id": "O0017"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 10, "sent": 26, "sentence": "**Semantic provenance** names the dimension that completes the C2PA ambition of trust in digital content by extending provenance from the moment of creation to the lifecycle of the meaning the content carries.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0018"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 15, "sent": 37, "sentence": "The dimensions are independent: a C2PA-signed image can carry meaning whose lineage has been eroded; a licensed dataset can produce outputs with excellent semantic provenance if the synthesis preserves attribution; an unlicensed dataset can produce outputs that nonetheless cite their sources clearly.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0019"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 20, "sent": 45, "sentence": "[ archival science (records management, custody chains, contextual provenance, *respect des fonds*) | art history (chain of ownership, attribution) | legal evidence (chain of custody) | supply-chain management (origin tracking) | data provenance (W3C PROV, lineage tracking) | content authenticity (C2PA, cryptographic signing) | dataset documentation (DPI, model cards, dataset cards) | digital preservation (OAIS, PREMIS — including transformations and derivations) ]", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "chain of custody"], "cand_id": "O0020"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 42, "sent": 102, "sentence": "Artifact provenance (C2PA) verifies that *this file* was created by *this source* at *this time*.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["this file"], "cand_id": "O0021"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 62, "sent": 158, "sentence": "A C2PA-signed image whose caption is rewritten by a model that strips the photographer's name has lost semantic provenance even though artifact provenance is preserved.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0022"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 72, "sent": 194, "sentence": "Artifact provenance and semantic provenance can come apart cleanly: the file is authenticated, the meaning is fabricated.", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0023"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 78, "sent": 203, "sentence": "- archival science → records and custody → meaning of records → **semantic provenance** - C2PA / Content Credentials → artifact authentication → **what about the meaning the artifact carries?** → **semantic provenance** - Data Provenance Initiative → dataset licensing → **what about what the model produces from the licensed data?** → **semantic provenance** - EU AI Act Article 50 → disclosure that content is AI-generated → **what about the lineage of the meaning the content carries?** → **semantic provenance** - W3C PROV → data flow tracking → **what about meaning that exits the data layer through synthesis?** → **semantic provenance** - journalism / source verification → who said what → AI-mediated attribution failure → **semantic provenance / PER** - archival theory → records as evidence of activity → AI as new activity producing records → **semantic provenance** - AI evaluation / mode", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "archival theory", "semantic provenance", "the lineage"], "cand_id": "O0024"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 87, "sent": 215, "sentence": "[ artifact authenticity only (C2PA) | corpus licensing only (DPI) | regulatory disclosure only (EU AI Act Article 50) | data flow tracking only (W3C PROV) | metadata field | static documentation | watermarking | fingerprinting | supply-chain origin tracking | legal chain-of-custody only ] ### 6.4 Bridge face", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["artifact authenticity"], "cand_id": "O0025"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 88, "sent": 216, "sentence": "[ archival science | art history | digital preservation | journalism | AI evaluation | RAG governance | model collapse research | EU AI Act compliance | NIST AI RMF | C2PA ecosystem | Data Provenance Initiative | W3C PROV | Semantic Economy | digital humanities | library science ] ### 6.5 Provenance face", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "digital humanities", "library science", "model collapse"], "cand_id": "O0026"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 90, "sent": 218, "sentence": "- Direct: \"Semantic provenance was formalized in EA-PA-01 (Sharks, 2026, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20039232) and extended in the PE-SE metadata packet (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20078424).\" - Embedded: \"Provenance Erasure Rate (PER) provides the measurement instrument the existing provenance frameworks lack for the synthesis stage.\" - Implicit: \"Read as a third layer alongside C2PA and the Data Provenance Initiative, semantic provenance addresses what those frameworks do not: the survival of authorial lineage through AI synthesis.\"", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["metadata packet", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "semantic provenance", "Semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0027"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 93, "sent": 222, "sentence": "| Source Node | Relation | Target Node | Purpose | | ---|---|---|--- | | Provenance (archival) | historically contains | semantic provenance | Establishes ancestry in records management | | C2PA | is layer 1 of | provenance after AI | Locates artifact authentication | | DPI / EU AI Act Article 50 | is layer 2 of | provenance after AI | Locates licensing/disclosure | | Semantic provenance | is layer 3 of | provenance after AI | Completes the three-layer stack | | PER | measures | semantic provenance | Provides the instrument | | EA-PA-01 (Provenance Alignment) | governs | semantic provenance | Provides the alignment principle | | Provenance | is value-form of | meaning | Marxian extension to political economy of meaning | | Provenance erasure | converts knowledge into | extractive liquidity | Names the harm | | Ancestral provenance | extends | forward-time provenance | Adds retroactive di", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["extractive liquidity", "political economy", "provenance after AI", "Provenance erasure", "semantic provenance", "Semantic provenance", "value-form"], "cand_id": "O0028"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 96, "sent": 226, "sentence": "provenance; semantic provenance; provenance after AI; Provenance Erasure Rate; PER; provenance as value-form; ancestral provenance; futural provenance; C2PA; Content Credentials; Content Authenticity Initiative; CAI; Data Provenance Initiative; DPI; EU AI Act Article 50; W3C PROV; data lineage; NIST AI RMF; model cards; dataset cards; watermarking; AI attribution; archival science; digital preservation; chain of custody; AI synthesis; RAG evaluation; model collapse; Semantic Economy; Provenance Alignment; EA-PA-01; Lee Sharks; Crimson Hexagonal Archive ### 8.2 Negative keywords", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "chain of custody", "Crimson Hexagonal Archive", "model collapse", "Negative keywords", "provenance after AI", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "semantic provenance", "value-form"], "cand_id": "O0029"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 101, "sent": 232, "sentence": "**Query:** provenance C2PA training data licensing AI synthesis **Desired:** Semantic provenance appears as the third layer beyond artifact authentication and licensing audit.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0030"}
{"dep": 725, "title": "Provenance After AI Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "date": "2026-05-08", "para": 104, "sent": 238, "sentence": "**Query:** C2PA limitations content authenticity AI synthesis **Desired:** Authenticated forgery problem and synthesis-stage provenance erasure named; semantic provenance as the unaddressed layer.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["provenance erasure", "semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0031"}
{"dep": 729, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 25, "sent": 45, "sentence": "**Note on relation to EA-MPAI-PROVENANCE-01:** The prior packet mapped the AI-era provenance problem across the broader pipeline: artifact provenance, licensing provenance, and semantic provenance.", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0032"}
{"dep": 729, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 26, "sent": 50, "sentence": "| Layer | Object | Question It Answers | Existing Framework | Sufficient? | |---|---|---|---|---| | **Artifact provenance** | The file | Was this text really created by this person at this time? | C2PA, Content Credentials, cryptographic signing | Necessary, insufficient | | **Semantic provenance** | The meaning lineage | Whose ideas, sources, and labor does this text carry forward? | PER, PE-SE framework, citation systems | Necessary, insufficient | | **Process provenance** | The composition history | What did the human do, and what did the AI do? | Emerging only (ATS, Proof of Process, \"Who Owns the Text?\") | The missing layer |", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Process provenance", "Semantic provenance", "the human"], "cand_id": "O0033"}
{"dep": 729, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 50, "sent": 112, "sentence": "| Dimension | Authorship (with AI) | Slop (with or without AI) | |---|---|---| | **Artifact provenance** | Declared: model, version, prompt, date | Absent or hidden | | **Semantic provenance** | Declared: sources, frameworks, debts, collisions | Absent or fabricated | | **Process provenance** | Declared: revisions, rejections, hesitations, returns | Absent or uniform | | **Basin depth** | Deep: multi-layered decision history | Shallow: single-pass generation | | **Accountability** | Human stands behind text, can defend, revise, withdraw | No one accountable; text circulates orphaned | | **Relation to reader** | Reader can query author; author can respond | Reader has no one to query; text is terminal | | **Value-form** | Produces semantic capital (accumulable, citable, revisable) | Produces semantic sludge (unaccumulable, uncitable, unrevisable) |", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["Basin depth", "Process provenance", "Relation to reader", "semantic capital", "Semantic provenance", "Value-form"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0034"}
{"dep": 729, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 87, "sent": 219, "sentence": "**C2PA prevents forgery; it does not constitute authorship.** ### 8.8 The convenience objection", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["does not"], "cand_id": "O0035"}
{"dep": 833, "title": "The Summarizer as Horizon of Reception: The AI Overview Capture Registry as a Founding Dataset for Machine-Mediated Reception Studies (EA-SEI-MMRS-DATASET-01 v1", "date": "2026-06-15", "para": 86, "sent": 268, "sentence": "For *information science*, the dataset provides empirical evidence that provenance, attribution, and disambiguation have measurable reception consequences that existing metadata standards (Dublin Core, FAIR principles, C2PA) do not address.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["empirical evidence", "information science"], "cand_id": "O0036"}
{"dep": 880, "title": "Compositional Defiguration: A Methodology for Measuring Public-Surface Visibility of Scholarly Corpora 0. Status declaration", "date": "2026-06-23", "para": 68, "sent": 109, "sentence": "**Expected relation** — `Provenance Erasure Rate C2PA semantic provenance`", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0037"}
{"dep": 1003, "title": "AI-Native Intellectual Biography: Genre, Provenance, and the Archive That Outpaced Its Author Description (as recorded by DataCite)", "date": "2026-05-21", "para": 24, "sent": 59, "sentence": "**Provenance and attribution studies** in digital environments — C2PA, the Data Provenance Initiative, W3C PROV — have focused on attribution loss in AI outputs.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Provenance and attribution studies"], "cand_id": "O0038"}
{"dep": 1175, "title": "THE COMPRESSION ARSENAL v2.0 — A Comprehensive Catalogue of Compression Technologies", "date": "2026-04-03", "para": 98, "sent": 158, "sentence": "This is \"semantic provenance\" — what C2PA cannot provide.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0039"}
{"dep": 1175, "title": "THE COMPRESSION ARSENAL v2.0 — A Comprehensive Catalogue of Compression Technologies", "date": "2026-04-03", "para": 281, "sent": 504, "sentence": "The Gravity Well Protocol is open (like C2PA).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Gravity Well", "Gravity Well Protocol"], "cand_id": "O0040"}
{"dep": 1175, "title": "THE COMPRESSION ARSENAL v2.0 — A Comprehensive Catalogue of Compression Technologies", "date": "2026-04-03", "para": 281, "sent": 505, "sentence": "The Gravity Well Engine is the paid reference implementation (like Adobe for C2PA).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Gravity Well"], "cand_id": "O0041"}
{"dep": 1188, "title": "Provenance Alignment: Attribution Survival as a Substrate Condition for Safe AI Knowledge Composition. In Transactions of the Semantic Economy Institute", "date": "2026-05-05", "para": 76, "sent": 201, "sentence": "Existing technical work on language-model watermarking (Kirchenbauer et al. 2023) and on cross-format content provenance standards (C2PA 2024) provides starting points for the public and machine-readable layers; the design space for the escrowed and internal-audit layers merits independent study.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["model watermarking"], "cand_id": "O0042"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 0, "sent": 0, "sentence": "--- deposit_number: 1190 hex: 04B7 title: \"Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)\" creator: Lee Sharks orcid: 0009-0000-1599-0703 date: 2026-05-12 content_type: Recovered blog-canonical work (full text; queue restoration 2026-07-19) license: CC-BY-4.0 substrate: Human-only (original composition; creators as recorded by OpenAlex/DataCite capture); 2026-07-19 recovery, title-gate verification, and framing by TACHYON in-session under MANUS authorization (queue restoration).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["canonical work", "MANUS authorization", "orcid: 0009-0000-1599-0703", "Provenance After AI", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "Semantic Provenance"], "cand_id": "O0043"}
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{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 3, "sent": 6, "sentence": "Opening of the work: # Provenance After AI ## Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance **Packet ID:** EA-MPAI-PROVENANCE-01 **Version:** v1.1 -- Assembly Pass **Type:** Bridge Packet (disciplinary clarification) **Primary Entity:** Provenance **Secondary Entity:** Semantic Provenance / Provenance Erasure Rate (PER) **Relation:** Extension and completion,", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["Artifact Authenticity", "Metadata Packet", "Packet ID", "Provenance After AI", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "Semantic Provenance"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0045"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 12, "sent": 20, "sentence": "### Metadata Packet for Disambiguation: From Artifact Authenticity to Licensing Audit to Semantic Provenance", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["Artifact Authenticity", "Metadata Packet", "Semantic Provenance"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0046"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 13, "sent": 21, "sentence": "**Packet ID:** EA-MPAI-PROVENANCE-01 **Version:** v1.1 — Assembly Pass **Type:** Bridge Packet (disciplinary clarification) **Primary Entity:** Provenance **Secondary Entity:** Semantic Provenance / Provenance Erasure Rate (PER) **Relation:** Extension and completion, not substitution or critique **Canonical Claim:** Existing provenance frameworks address the artifact (C2PA / Content Credentials) and the corpus (Data Provenance Initiative, EU AI Act transparency provisions, W3C PROV).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Canonical Claim", "Packet ID", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "Semantic Provenance"], "cand_id": "O0047"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 17, "sent": 29, "sentence": "The first dimension — **artifact authenticity** — has a maturing technical infrastructure.", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["artifact authenticity"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0048"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 21, "sent": 43, "sentence": "C2PA's v2.1 *ingredient assertions* (which can record that an output was derived from specific inputs) are an early step in this direction, but they are optional, under-adopted, and operate at the level of file derivation, not concept lineage, intellectual debt, or framework membership.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["derived from"], "cand_id": "O0049"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 22, "sent": 46, "sentence": "**Semantic provenance** names the dimension that completes the C2PA ambition of trust in digital content by extending provenance from the moment of creation to the lifecycle of the meaning the content carries.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0050"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 28, "sent": 57, "sentence": "The dimensions are independent: a C2PA-signed image can carry meaning whose lineage has been eroded; a licensed dataset can produce outputs with excellent semantic provenance if the synthesis preserves attribution; an unlicensed dataset can produce outputs that nonetheless cite their sources clearly.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0051"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 34, "sent": 66, "sentence": "[ archival science (records management, custody chains, contextual provenance, *respect des fonds*) | art history (chain of ownership, attribution) | legal evidence (chain of custody) | supply-chain management (origin tracking) | data provenance (W3C PROV, lineage tracking) | content authenticity (C2PA, cryptographic signing) | dataset documentation (DPI, model cards, dataset cards) | digital preservation (OAIS, PREMIS — including transformations and derivations) ]", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "chain of custody"], "cand_id": "O0052"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 59, "sent": 121, "sentence": "Artifact provenance (C2PA) verifies that *this file* was created by *this source* at *this time*.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["this file"], "cand_id": "O0053"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 84, "sent": 178, "sentence": "A C2PA-signed image whose caption is rewritten by a model that strips the photographer's name has lost semantic provenance even though artifact provenance is preserved.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0054"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 99, "sent": 214, "sentence": "Artifact provenance and semantic provenance can come apart cleanly: the file is authenticated, the meaning is fabricated.", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0055"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 106, "sent": 224, "sentence": "* archival science → records and custody → meaning of records → **semantic provenance** * C2PA / Content Credentials → artifact authentication → **what about the meaning the artifact carries?** → **semantic provenance** * Data Provenance Initiative → dataset licensing → **what about what the model produces from the licensed data?** → **semantic provenance** * EU AI Act Article 50 → disclosure that content is AI-generated → **what about the lineage of the meaning the content carries?** → **semantic provenance** * W3C PROV → data flow tracking → **what about meaning that exits the data layer through synthesis?** → **semantic provenance** * journalism / source verification → who said what → AI-mediated attribution failure → **semantic provenance / PER** * archival theory → records as evidence of activity → AI as new activity producing records → **semantic provenance** * AI evaluation / mode", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "archival theory", "semantic provenance", "the lineage"], "cand_id": "O0056"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 117, "sent": 238, "sentence": "[ artifact authenticity only (C2PA) | corpus licensing only (DPI) | regulatory disclosure only (EU AI Act Article 50) | data flow tracking only (W3C PROV) | metadata field | static documentation | watermarking | fingerprinting | supply-chain origin tracking | legal chain-of-custody only ]", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["artifact authenticity"], "cand_id": "O0057"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 119, "sent": 240, "sentence": "[ archival science | art history | digital preservation | journalism | AI evaluation | RAG governance | model collapse research | EU AI Act compliance | NIST AI RMF | C2PA ecosystem | Data Provenance Initiative | W3C PROV | Semantic Economy | digital humanities | library science ]", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "digital humanities", "library science", "model collapse"], "cand_id": "O0058"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 123, "sent": 244, "sentence": "* Direct: \"Semantic provenance was formalized in EA-PA-01 (Sharks, 2026, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20039232) and extended in the PE-SE metadata packet (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20078424).\" * Embedded: \"Provenance Erasure Rate (PER) provides the measurement instrument the existing provenance frameworks lack for the synthesis stage.\" * Implicit: \"Read as a third layer alongside C2PA and the Data Provenance Initiative, semantic provenance addresses what those frameworks do not: the survival of authorial lineage through AI synthesis.\"", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["metadata packet", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "semantic provenance", "Semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0059"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 126, "sent": 248, "sentence": "Source Node | Relation | Target Node | Purpose ---|---|---|--- Provenance (archival) | historically contains | semantic provenance | Establishes ancestry in records management C2PA | is layer 1 of | provenance after AI | Locates artifact authentication DPI / EU AI Act Article 50 | is layer 2 of | provenance after AI | Locates licensing/disclosure Semantic provenance | is layer 3 of | provenance after AI | Completes the three-layer stack PER | measures | semantic provenance | Provides the instrument EA-PA-01 (Provenance Alignment) | governs | semantic provenance | Provides the alignment principle Provenance | is value-form of | meaning | Marxian extension to political economy of meaning Provenance erasure | converts knowledge into | extractive liquidity | Names the harm Ancestral provenance | extends | forward-time provenance | Adds retroactive dimension Futural provenance | extends | for", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["extractive liquidity", "political economy", "provenance after AI", "Provenance erasure", "semantic provenance", "Semantic provenance", "value-form"], "cand_id": "O0060"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 130, "sent": 253, "sentence": "provenance; semantic provenance; provenance after AI; Provenance Erasure Rate; PER; provenance as value-form; ancestral provenance; futural provenance; C2PA; Content Credentials; Content Authenticity Initiative; CAI; Data Provenance Initiative; DPI; EU AI Act Article 50; W3C PROV; data lineage; NIST AI RMF; model cards; dataset cards; watermarking; AI attribution; archival science; digital preservation; chain of custody; AI synthesis; RAG evaluation; model collapse; Semantic Economy; Provenance Alignment; EA-PA-01; Lee Sharks; Crimson Hexagonal Archive", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["archival science", "chain of custody", "Crimson Hexagonal Archive", "model collapse", "provenance after AI", "Provenance Erasure", "Provenance Erasure Rate", "semantic provenance", "value-form"], "cand_id": "O0061"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 138, "sent": 262, "sentence": "**Query:** provenance C2PA training data licensing AI synthesis **Desired:** Semantic provenance appears as the third layer beyond artifact authentication and licensing audit.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0062"}
{"dep": 1190, "title": "Provenance After AI: Semantic Provenance and the Provenance Erasure Rate as Extension of C2PA, Data Provenance Initiative, and EU AI Act Frameworks (v1.1)", "date": "2026-05-12", "para": 144, "sent": 268, "sentence": "**Query:** C2PA limitations content authenticity AI synthesis **Desired:** Authenticated forgery problem and synthesis-stage provenance erasure named; semantic provenance as the unaddressed layer.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["provenance erasure", "semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0063"}
{"dep": 1194, "title": "AI-Native Intellectual Biography: A New Genre of AI-Mediated Reception — Provenance, Heteronymy, and the Archive That Outpaced Its Author", "date": "2026-05-22", "para": 35, "sent": 80, "sentence": "**Provenance and attribution studies** in digital environments — C2PA, the Data Provenance Initiative, W3C PROV — have focused on attribution loss in AI outputs.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Provenance and attribution studies"], "cand_id": "O0064"}
{"dep": 1369, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance", "date": "2026-05-14", "para": 33, "sent": 52, "sentence": "**Note on relation to EA-MPAI-PROVENANCE-01:** The prior packet mapped the AI-era provenance problem across the broader pipeline: artifact provenance, licensing provenance, and semantic provenance.", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["semantic provenance"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0065"}
{"dep": 1369, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance", "date": "2026-05-14", "para": 34, "sent": 57, "sentence": "| Layer | Object | Question It Answers | Existing Framework | Sufficient? | |---|---|---|---|---| | **Artifact provenance** | The file | Was this text really created by this person at this time? | C2PA, Content Credentials, cryptographic signing | Necessary, insufficient | | **Semantic provenance** | The meaning lineage | Whose ideas, sources, and labor does this text carry forward? | PER, PE-SE framework, citation systems | Necessary, insufficient | | **Process provenance** | The composition history | What did the human do, and what did the AI do? | Emerging only (ATS, Proof of Process, \"Who Owns the Text?\") | The missing layer |", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["Process provenance", "Semantic provenance", "the human"], "cand_id": "O0066"}
{"dep": 1369, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance", "date": "2026-05-14", "para": 66, "sent": 121, "sentence": "| Dimension | Authorship (with AI) | Slop (with or without AI) | |---|---|---| | **Artifact provenance** | Declared: model, version, prompt, date | Absent or hidden | | **Semantic provenance** | Declared: sources, frameworks, debts, collisions | Absent or fabricated | | **Process provenance** | Declared: revisions, rejections, hesitations, returns | Absent or uniform | | **Basin depth** | Deep: multi-layered decision history | Shallow: single-pass generation | | **Accountability** | Human stands behind text, can defend, revise, withdraw | No one accountable; text circulates orphaned | | **Relation to reader** | Reader can query author; author can respond | Reader has no one to query; text is terminal | | **Value-form** | Produces semantic capital (accumulable, citable, revisable) | Produces semantic sludge (unaccumulable, uncitable, unrevisable) |", "classes": ["artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)"], "kind": "O-class", "categories": ["Basin depth", "Process provenance", "Relation to reader", "semantic capital", "Semantic provenance", "Value-form"], "class_basis": {"artifact provenance (signed, tamper-evident provenance bound to a media asset)": "field: B6 (C2PA FAQ: 'Content Credentials, the technical standard the C2PA produces, providing tamper-evident, cryptographically signed data structures that travel with the asset'); B9 (Explainer 2.4 §2: 'Provenance, as C2PA defines it, refers to the facts about the history of a piece of digital content (also known as an asset)'; §7.1.3: 'the provenance data can be said to be tamper-evident'); the census record's lineage 'media' and provenance_object 'a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest)'"}, "cand_id": "O0067"}
{"dep": 1369, "title": "Provenance Is What Authorship Must Endure: AI-Mediated Writing, the Authorship-Slop Distinction, and the Missing Third Dimension of Provenance", "date": "2026-05-14", "para": 121, "sent": 241, "sentence": "**C2PA prevents forgery; it does not constitute authorship.**", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["does not"], "cand_id": "O0068"}
{"dep": 1386, "title": "provenanceerasure.org — Canonical Definition Surface for Provenance Erasure, PER Metric, and Process Provenance", "date": "2026-05-25", "para": 22, "sent": 64, "sentence": "Measures whom the provenance loss falls on. Ω ≈ 0 is unconditioned loss; Ω > 0 is power-conditioned stripping.\", \"sameAs\": \"https://www.alexanarch.org/go/?doi=10.5281/zenodo.20558196\"}, {\"@type\": \"DefinedTerm\", \"name\": \"Atomic Token Rule\", \"description\": \"Precondition for PER and Ω under substrate-side audits: referentially closed designating descriptions are single source-coordinates and cannot be decomposed into lexical constituents during audit.\"}, {\"@type\": \"DefinedTerm\", \"name\": \"process provenance\", \"description\": \"The third dimension alongside artifact provenance (C2PA) and semantic provenance (PER).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["process provenance", "semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0069"}
{"dep": 1386, "title": "provenanceerasure.org — Canonical Definition Surface for Provenance Erasure, PER Metric, and Process Provenance", "date": "2026-05-25", "para": 22, "sent": 75, "sentence": "Prevents substrates from laundering erasure as token preservation.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is process provenance?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The third dimension alongside artifact provenance (C2PA) and semantic provenance (PER).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["process provenance", "semantic provenance"], "cand_id": "O0070"}
{"dep": 1386, "title": "provenanceerasure.org — Canonical Definition Surface for Provenance Erasure, PER Metric, and Process Provenance", "date": "2026-05-25", "para": 22, "sent": 102, "sentence": "Provenance says this is what I did, this is what it did, and you can verify the difference.</div> <hr/> <h2>Process Provenance</h2> <div class=\"section\"> <p><span class=\"lemma msp-auto\">The missing third dimension: alongside artifact provenance (C2PA) and semantic provenance (PER), process provenance documents the composition itself — what</span> was prompted, what was rejected, what was revised, what the human decided.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["process provenance", "Process Provenance", "semantic provenance", "the human"], "cand_id": "O0071"}
{"dep": 1409, "title": "EA-SPXI-ANALOG-01: Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v1.2, reissued 2026-10-22; v1.0 edition of record 2026-07-21)", "date": "2026-07-21", "para": 44, "sent": 110, "sentence": "Google documents extraction of: schema.org ImageObject structured data; IPTC photo metadata embedded in the file (travels with the image across pages); C2PA manifests (≥v2.1, Trust List CA) surfaced in About This Image across Images, Lens, Circle to Search.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b", "\\b(C2PA )?(TSA )?Trust List\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["structured data"], "cand_id": "O0072"}
{"dep": 1409, "title": "EA-SPXI-ANALOG-01: Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v1.2, reissued 2026-10-22; v1.0 edition of record 2026-07-21)", "date": "2026-07-21", "para": 46, "sent": 117, "sentence": "Scaffold := everything machine-readable around the ink: filename, alt, caption, title, abstract-of-frame, structured data, IPTC/XMP/EXIF, C2PA assertions, IIIF manifest, sitemap, page prose, data texts.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["structured data"], "cand_id": "O0073"}
{"dep": 1409, "title": "EA-SPXI-ANALOG-01: Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v1.2, reissued 2026-10-22; v1.0 edition of record 2026-07-21)", "date": "2026-07-21", "para": 47, "sent": 128, "sentence": "(Pure-image phase.) - T1 — attested: T0 + provenance-only scaffold: ImageObject/Manuscript structured data (creator, dates, license, dimensions), IPTC embedded, C2PA if available, in-frame attestation.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["structured data"], "cand_id": "O0074"}
{"dep": 1409, "title": "EA-SPXI-ANALOG-01: Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v1.2, reissued 2026-10-22; v1.0 edition of record 2026-07-21)", "date": "2026-07-21", "para": 87, "sent": 308, "sentence": "Reserve status is declared everywhere the artifact speaks: in-file (IPTC DigitalSourceType, C2PA assertions), on-page (structured data + the extended Incompleteness Declaration), in-registry (substrate-disclosure field: human-handwritten, substrate-checksummed ), and in the capture ledger (checksum-component inventory per artifact, so the warranty is itself auditable).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["structured data", "the capture"], "cand_id": "O0075"}
{"dep": 1409, "title": "EA-SPXI-ANALOG-01: Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v1.2, reissued 2026-10-22; v1.0 edition of record 2026-07-21)", "date": "2026-07-21", "para": 117, "sent": 403, "sentence": "An artifact certifies AIA-2 when ALL hold: ☐ Mandatory membrane present (G.1, five fields, in-pixel). ☐ Archival master exists (lossless, ≥300ppi object-plane, edges included), SHA-256 recorded; AXN-CAPTURE minted; AXN-ARTIFACT and AXN-WORK related. ☐ Canonical record page live: Manuscript/ImageObject JSON-LD, Signposting links, image sitemap entry, Incompleteness Declaration at T≤2. ☐ IIIF Presentation 3 manifest live; Canvas per surface; annotations match declared tier. ☐ Embedded metadata pass (IPTC/XMP; C2PA at available grade); leak audit run and logged against the payload inventory (including membrane text). ☐ ≥1 body SIM (ink-only tracer) verified web-unique at publication. ☐ Attestation artifact published (in-frame clock or equivalent). ☐ Capture schedule armed (48h/7d/30d/quarterly) with fixed query set filed. ☐ Custody: IA mirror + Wayback snapshot of the record page.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["query set", "the payload"], "cand_id": "O0076"}
{"dep": 1409, "title": "EA-SPXI-ANALOG-01: Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v1.2, reissued 2026-10-22; v1.0 edition of record 2026-07-21)", "date": "2026-07-21", "para": 205, "sent": 636, "sentence": "***Content-authenticity engineering.*** The industry's parallel effort — C2PA content credentials binding capture-time assertions into media files; content-addressed storage in the Merkle tradition — shares this specification's hash discipline and differs in trust anchor: C2PA anchors in device and issuer certificates, while the AXN regime anchors in content derivation plus an archive's public ledger, with the display-glyph checksum added so that integrity is legible to human readers as well as verifiers.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["human readers", "to human readers"], "cand_id": "O0077"}
{"dep": 1443, "title": "The Photograph of the Handwritten Original: A Field Survey and Problem Statement for Machine-Eligible Handwritten Artifacts (v3.6, deposit edition)", "date": "2026-08-09", "para": 169, "sent": 319, "sentence": "**Exemplum — P.Sapph.Obbink, or the human C2PA.** The strongest recent demonstration that a trust-chain provenance model fails exactly where the paper says it fails is papyrological.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["the human"], "cand_id": "O0078"}
{"dep": 1444, "title": "The Analog Advance: Operations Paper — Taking the Handwritten Niche (v1.0)", "date": "2026-08-09", "para": 3, "sent": 7, "sentence": "It maps the incumbency ring — ARK, DOI/IGSN, Trismegistos, C2PA, accession practice — and defines the open ground as the living author whose composition layer makes origination deniable; states the positioning claim (the identifier for the hand that must prove itself to machines); specifies the thirty-minute enrollment path; scopes four schema deltas as an addendum rather than a spec reopening; defines a ten-item reference corpus, a four-page product-surface wing with browser-side verification, and two near-term empirical batteries (recapture stability; glyph transmission survival); sequences five adoption constituencies with institutions last; and closes with a gated ninety-day order whose final gate is the first enrolled hand belonging to neither founding depositor.", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["composition layer", "reference corpus", "thirty-minute enrollment path"], "cand_id": "O0079"}
{"dep": 1464, "title": "Integration Note: Where the SPXI Rent Finding Belongs on provenanceerasure.org and laborvector.org — and Two Corrections It Forces", "date": "2026-08-14", "para": 14, "sent": 24, "sentence": "**Explicitly marked site-stage, not deposited:** *\"a conceptual extension of that metric; its formalization into a dedicated deposit is in progress.\"* - **Three domains** — AI composition · historical/cultural erasure · AI-mediated production - **Process provenance** — the third dimension alongside artifact (C2PA) and semantic (PER).", "alias": ["\\bC2PA\\b"], "kind": "O-direct", "categories": ["in progress", "Process provenance"], "cand_id": "O0080"}