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the study identified 29 project and activity types."]},{"source_id":"S3","title":"National Archives and Records Administration Equity Plan","url":"https://www.archives.gov/files/about/plans-reports/equity/agency-equity-plan-2022.pdf","publisher":"U.S. National Archives and Records Administration","date_or_year":"2022","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","language":"English","claims_supported":["NARA reports staff and public complaints about harmful catalogue terminology and recognizes that users may have to search with harmful language.","NARA assigns responsible units, description archivists, agency-wide standards, community engagement, annual review, quantitative tracking, and a target of correcting at least 1,000 outdated descriptions.","NARA distinguishes original records, which it does not alter, from replaceable or supplementable catalogue descriptions."]},{"source_id":"S4","title":"Problematic Language in Archival Description","url":"https://www.lib.uwo.ca/archives/problematic_language.html","publisher":"Western Libraries, Western University","date_or_year":"Undated; 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Empirical visitor research also shows that museum labels shape attention, memory, and interpretation. The exact proposed outcome—readers mistaking a superseded interpretation for the institution's current conclusion and then making citation or teaching errors—was not directly measured by the retained sources.","source_ids":["S1","S2","S3","S4","S5","S8"],"uncertainty":"No retained study estimates the mistaken-current rate, compares marked with unmarked superseded interpretations, or attributes downstream historical errors specifically to status ambiguity. Much of the documented problem concerns harmful terminology and object descriptions rather than complete historiographic arguments."},"adopter_evidence":{"status":"SUPPORTED","finding":"Museums, archives, libraries, and collaborative knowledge bases are identifiable adopters. NARA names agency units and trained description archivists, while SKD, Western Libraries, and London Museum publicly assume responsibility for review, revision, preservation, and user consultation. An institutional editorial, cataloguing, or collections authority can therefore authorize a bounded pilot.","source_ids":["S2","S3","S4","S5","S8"],"uncertainty":"The precise approval body and consultation rights would remain institution-specific, especially for contested community representation."},"implementation_evidence":{"status":"SUPPORTED","finding":"Major components are demonstrably implementable: statement ranks that alter default retrieval, historical-status labels, warnings, preserved prior descriptions, internal archives, recoverable masked text, responsible-unit reports, review cycles, feedback channels, and reversible lifecycle states. 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A credible incremental research claim remains that, for individually registered interpretive claims in one bounded historical resource, a governed status-label-plus-demotion workflow with explicit lineage and restoration metadata will reduce mistaken-current selections by at least 20% versus label-only treatment without materially worsening retrieval, citation resolution, viewpoint representation, or curator workload.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"Falsified if a representative pre-audit finds fewer than 5% mistaken-current selections, or if the randomized pilot fails to achieve the preregistered 20% relative reduction, or produces material losses in retrieval, stable citation resolution, representation, or workload. It is also falsified as a distinct implementation claim if a directly matching claim-level, scheduled, reversible workflow with comparable outcome evaluation is found already in routine historical-resource use.","confidence":"MODERATE","search_limitations":"The bounded search retained exactly eight opened public sources. It covered English and German evidence plus French- and Spanish-language terminology searches, but paywalled literature, internal collection-management procedures, unindexed exhibit systems, and other languages may contain closer matches. The exact phrase 'interpretive-claim lifecycle' was uncommon; adjacent fields use critical cataloguing, reparative description, legacy description, ranking, supersession, obsolescence, and historical-title terminology."},"researchability_gates":{"externally_supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Multiple independent institutions document outdated, inaccurate, or harmful legacy descriptions and active remediation, while primary visitor research shows that institutional labels affect interpretation. Direct incidence of mistaken-current conclusions remains an empirical question suitable for the pilot rather than an unsupported premise.","source_ids":["S1","S2","S3","S4","S5","S8"]},"identifiable_adopter_or_authorizer":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Named museums, archives, libraries, cataloguing units, description archivists, and institutional policy owners already perform the relevant work and can authorize a reversible pilot.","source_ids":["S2","S3","S4","S5","S8"]},"distinct_testable_incremental_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Although the intervention family is established practice, the comparative claim about claim-level governed demotion versus label-only treatment, with a 20% effect threshold and explicit preservation and representation outcomes, remains distinct and falsifiable in the retained evidence.","source_ids":["S1","S5","S6","S8"]},"bounded_next_evidence_step":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A 100-claim, eight-week randomized pilot is bounded. It can preregister eligibility, mistaken-current selections, citation and retrieval failures, representation checks, appeals, and curator time, while retaining complete prior display states.","source_ids":["S1","S3","S4","S5","S6"]},"no_unresolved_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The principal risks—suppression, presentism, loss of context, and unequal treatment—are real but manageable through human authorization, community consultation, preserved originals, audit trails, reversible states, stable citations, and explicit halt criteria. No source establishes a categorical legal or ethical prohibition on such a reversible pilot.","source_ids":["S3","S4","S5","S7","S8"]},"adequate_search_evidence":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"All six required lanes were searched adversarially. Exactly eight retained sources were directly opened, spanning eight publisher contexts and including two primary studies plus six official, institutional, standards, or first-party sources. The search included older field terminology, products, standards, German-language and regional practices, and component combinations.","source_ids":["S1","S2","S3","S4","S5","S6","S7","S8"]}},"strict_success":false,"screen_survival":false,"remaining_research_value":"MODERATE","recommended_next_step":"Treat lifecycle labeling and demotion as an established intervention family and evaluate only the incremental claim. Preregister and run the proposed reversible 100-claim pilot, stratifying claims by reason for review rather than age alone. Compare label-plus-demotion with label-only on blinded mistaken-current selections, retrieval, citation resolution, viewpoint representation, appeals, and curator minutes; require affected-community review before inclusion and restore prior display states on any halt condition.","world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded public-web search supports neither world novelty nor patentability, freedom to operate, market size, or realized impact. It found established same-domain practices for revising, marking, preserving, archiving, and reducing the ordinary visibility of legacy descriptions, plus statement-level and standards-level lifecycle systems. It did not establish that the complete proposed claim-level registry, governance model, and randomized evaluation has or has not been implemented anywhere."}