AXN — the Alexanarch identifier set

An AXN is a content-derived identifier. Its form is AXN:<HEX>.<FAMILY>.<six glyphs>: the hex marks position in the archive, the family marks the deposit’s class, and the six-glyph suffix is a display hash of the canonical text’s SHA-256. The identifier is therefore derived from the work rather than assigned to it, and it changes when the text changes.

The archive publishes 1407 AXN identifiers as independent terms. Each has its own canonical URL at /s/axn/<HEX>/ and is related to the work it names by about, not by canonical consolidation: the identifier and the work are two entities, and each is canonical to itself.

Resolver rule: alexanarch.org/axn/<HEX> · machine index: /api/axn-index.json · sitemap: /sitemap-axn.xml · corpus: all deposits