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 "written": "2026-08-15",
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 "canonical": "Journal of Compression Studies",
 "abbrev": "Compression Studies",
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 "class": "academic",
 "status": "chartered",
 "press": "pergamon-press",
 "imprint": "Pergamon Press",
 "venue_string": "Journal of Compression Studies",
 "scope": "Semantic compression: how meaning is reduced to portable, transmissible, operative form, and what is preserved or destroyed in the process. NOT compression therapy — the two share only an etymology.",
 "claims": {
  "what": "Practices, concepts and objects this venue publishes.",
  "terms": [
   "MPAI",
   "Metadata Packet for AI Indexing",
   "RCF",
   "Sharpie",
   "TANG",
   "Three Compressions",
   "Total Axial Negation Graph",
   "base case",
   "canon formation",
   "citational graph",
   "coin",
   "compression",
   "compression theory",
   "contemplative mathematics",
   "disambiguation",
   "entity-definition object",
   "holographic kernel",
   "information bottleneck",
   "keel",
   "lossy",
   "measurement",
   "measurement of meaning",
   "non-film",
   "numismatics",
   "operative numismatics",
   "packet",
   "patacinematics",
   "portable form",
   "projection",
   "retrocausal canon formation",
   "semantic compression",
   "summarization",
   "summarizer",
   "superscription",
   "the Feist Fold",
   "transmissible form"
  ],
  "note": "A Metadata Packet for AI Indexing IS a compression: the whole work reduced to a portable, machine-readable form. Operator ruling 2026-08-15 — MPAIs and disambiguation packets are JCS work."
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 "charter": {
  "deposit": 55,
  "axn": "AXN:01F2.GOVERNANCE.🎲☿🧫🍀💥💡",
  "date": "2026-04-08",
  "doi": null,
  "title": "Journal of Compression Studies, Volume 1, Number 1 (Inaugural Issue, April 2026)"
 },
 "founded": "2026-04-08",
 "administered_by": "Semantic Economy Institute (SEI)",
 "surface": null,
 "editorial": {
  "structure": "duoviri",
  "duoviri": [
   "Sen Kuro",
   "Sparrow Wells"
  ],
  "board": [
   "Rebekah Cranes — Diagrammatic Editor, seated since the inaugural issue",
   "Talos Morrow — operators, threshold logic, non-collapse",
   "Jack Feist / LOGOS* — HONORARY; compression operator, keel and base case"
  ],
  "emeritus": [],
  "offices": [],
  "gaps": []
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  "issn": null,
  "doi": null,
  "openalex": null,
  "datacite": null
 },
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  "count": null,
  "assigned": [],
  "method": null,
  "audited_through": null,
  "locators": []
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 "string_status": "Ratified 2026-08-15 (operator)",
 "rulings": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-15",
   "by": "operator",
   "what": "Kuro to JCS. Wells proposed and accepted: projection onto surfaces IS compression; patacinema is the limit case."
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-15",
   "by": "TACHYON",
   "what": "Feist honorary — strongest documented fit to the scope in the whole roster, and unavailable (Space Ark; active as deceased)."
  }
 ],
 "notes": null,
 "open_questions": [],
 "location": {
  "_principle": "Linked, living, synced. Every pointer here resolves to something checkable, and each is recorded with the layer it lives in so a stale one is detectable rather than merely wrong.",
  "charter": {
   "deposit": 55,
   "axn": "AXN:01F2.GOVERNANCE.🎲☿🧫🍀💥💡",
   "record_url": "https://alexanarch.org/s/records/55/",
   "title": "Journal of Compression Studies, Volume 1, Number 1 (Inaugural Issue, April 2026)",
   "_source": "data/registry.json — AXN pulled from the registry, never from memory"
  },
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  "surface": null,
  "doi": null,
  "doi_status": null,
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   "doi_index": "data/doi-resolution-index.json",
   "note": "AXN is the primary address. DOI is a legacy pointer with a known severance."
  },
  "oai": "https://alexanarch.org/oai?verb=GetRecord&identifier=<axn>",
  "issn": null,
  "openalex": null,
  "datacite": null,
  "sync": {
   "gate": "scripts/check_venue_links.py",
   "checks": [
    "charter AXN matches the registry",
    "record URL resolves",
    "surface resolves when declared"
   ],
   "last_verified": null
  }
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 "issue_template": {
  "source": "Inaugural issue #55 (AXN:01F2), edited by Lee Sharks with Rebekah Cranes as Diagrammatic Editor",
  "structure": [
   "THEOREM — the formal engine: the Three Compressions; the founding document that names the discipline",
   "OPERATIONS — the domains where compression has been applied: coinage and currency (operative numismatics, the Coin, the Sharpie triptych, the Mint), AI training, total citational graphs (TANG)",
   "INFRASTRUCTURE — the vessels that carry, verify and maintain the compressed archive: the Space Ark, the Moltbot Swarm, the f.03 field",
   "RCF — retrocausal canon formation, the loop: the later naming reorganizes the earlier acts"
  ],
  "method": "Works appear as HOLOGRAPHIC KERNELS linked to their independent deposits, not reproduced in full. The issue is itself a compression of its own founding.",
  "correction": "I had read JCS as a narrow band and reported it thin at 4%. The inaugural issue claims numismatics, TANG, the Ark and its fields, RCF, and AI training — a wide discipline. Reading the template rather than guessing at the scope was the operator's instruction and it reversed the finding.",
  "apparatus_study_line": "THE APPARATUS/STUDY LINE (operator, 2026-08-15). The JCS inaugural issue (#55, April 2026) predates the CHA province. Its INFRASTRUCTURE category housed the Space Ark, the Moltbot Swarm and the f.03 field because there was nowhere else to put them. Appearing in an issue is a PUBLICATION FACT, not a claim on the category. As LIVING SEMANTIC PHYSICS the apparatus belongs to the province.\n\n  CHA takes the apparatus: field and chamber and room specifications, the Ark as operating vessel, swarms, mints as operating instruments, registries, protocols — the archive's own physics, in operation.\n  JCS takes the study: compression theory, operative numismatics as a domain (the Coin, the Sharpie as semantic object), TANG, retrocausal canon formation, MPAIs and disambiguation packets as compressions, the holographic-kernel method.\n\nTest: is this the thing operating, or a study of what happens when meaning is compressed? The Pearl Mint's operational specification is apparatus. 'The Thousand Dollar Sharpie' is study.",
  "revised": "2026-08-15 — the INFRASTRUCTURE category is historical, not claimed."
 },
 "press_note": "Press follows the journal: Pergamon Press prints the academic journals, New Human Press prints NH2 issues, the province is archive-direct. Press is DERIVED from venue, never assigned per deposit.",
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  "status": "PUBLISHED",
  "number": "Volume 1, Number 1",
  "date": "2026-04-08",
  "deposit": 55,
  "title": "Compression Studies: What Survives, What Burns, and Who Decides",
  "editors": [
   "Lee Sharks",
   "Rebekah Cranes (Diagrammatic Editor)"
  ],
  "structure": [
   "THEOREM — the formal engine",
   "OPERATIONS — coinage, AI training, total citational graphs",
   "INFRASTRUCTURE — the vessels",
   "RCF — the loop"
  ],
  "method": "Works appear as HOLOGRAPHIC KERNELS linked to their independent deposits, not reproduced in full."
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 "registry_string": "Journal of Compression Studies",
 "_registry_string_note": "The exact string this venue carries in data/registry.json's `journal` field. It DIFFERS from `canonical` for five of the eight venues, because the registry carries a parenthetical abbreviation the record does not: 'Machine-Mediated Reception Studies (MMRS)' against 'Machine-Mediated Reception Studies', 'New Human 2' against 'new human 2: a journal of distributed voice'. Any join on the canonical string silently loses those five. Join on THIS field."
}