{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp11_mechanism_context_external20_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp11_external_scrutiny_20260804","cell_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__history_historiography","opaque_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__history_historiography__C","search_lanes":{"direct_problem":{"queries":["digital scholarly edition superseded annotations outdated interpretation version history","digital history project outdated interpretive content maintenance annotations","\"superseded\" \"digital edition\" annotation","\"living\" digital archive annotations versioning"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4","SRC8"],"no_result_note":null},"closest_prior_art":{"queries":["digital scholarly edition versioning policy obsolete superseded commentary annotations","museum digital interpretation outdated content review governance guidance","digital edition prior versions discovery current version citation confusion 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resource-level version control, but these practices vary.","Tombstone pages linked to archived editions are an existing provenance-preserving response to withdrawn resources."]},{"source_id":"SRC3","title":"Reckoning with Outdated Exhibit Content","url":"https://ncph.org/phc/2025-topic-proposals/reckoning-with-outdated-exhibit-content/","publisher":"National Council on Public History","date_or_year":"2024","source_type":"TRADE_PROFESSIONAL","language":"English","claims_supported":["The Western Development Museum reported decades-old exhibit information and terminology still on display.","Beginning in 2019, that museum systematically evaluated gallery signage for updating or removal.","The case explicitly raises decision authority, partnership, inclusion, exclusion, and whose voices are retained or ignored."]},{"source_id":"SRC4","title":"Digital Interpretation","url":"https://www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/advice-article/digital-interpretation/","publisher":"Museums Galleries 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The sources do not directly measure whether superseded historical overlays rank as current or whether readers systematically mistake them for current guidance.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4","SRC7","SRC8"],"uncertainty":"Evidence spans digital editions, museum interpretation, exhibits, and general web annotation rather than one observed living digital-history corpus. The central user-confusion and discovery-ranking mechanism remains unmeasured."},"adopter_evidence":{"status":"SUPPORTED","finding":"Identifiable adopters and authorizers include digital-edition editors and institutional publishers, museum curatorial and interpretation teams, repository stewards, and governing institutions. 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No retained source implements the full package of overlay states, discovery demotion, dependency checks, named historiographic exceptions, distributional review, reversible quarantine, and task-based evaluation in a living history corpus.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC4","SRC5","SRC6","SRC7"],"uncertainty":"Integration cost, classification reliability, search-system support, and governance workload have not been demonstrated for the proposed domain."},"prior_art":{"disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","closest_analogues":[{"name":"Digital-scholarly-edition versioning, persistent citation, and tombstones","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"same_problem":true,"same_causal_lever":true,"overlap":"Tracks separately changing editorial components, identifies versions, archives and retrieves prior states, records relationships among versions, supports citations, and leaves tombstones for withdrawn editions.","remaining_difference":"It does not generally assign active, contested, superseded, or preservation-exception states to interpretive overlays or test whether status labels and search demotion reduce mistaken-current use."},{"name":"Cambridge superseded-edition management policy","source_ids":["SRC6"],"same_problem":true,"same_causal_lever":true,"overlap":"Uses an explicit supersession trigger, a delay, annual cadence, advance signposting, withdrawal from ordinary platform access, and continuity measures.","remaining_difference":"It governs commercial textbooks rather than plural historiographic interpretation; it does not preserve public lineage by exception, assess disparate interpretive harm, or offer reversible overlay-level demotion."},{"name":"Museum interpretive review and systematic outdated-content reassessment","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4","SRC8"],"same_problem":true,"same_causal_lever":true,"overlap":"Recognizes outdated interpretation, assigns institutional editors responsibility, recommends recurring review, and includes updating or removal plus attention to inclusion and public trust.","remaining_difference":"The guidance and case do not supply immutable overlay identities, dependency reconstruction, standardized supersession links, archived discovery tiers, rollback, or controlled user testing."}],"contrastive_claim_remaining":"In one bounded living digital-history collection, overlay-level lifecycle labels plus shadow demotion—added to ordinary version history and implemented with dependency checks, reversible archival provenance, and named protections for contested or minority accounts—will reduce mistaken-current selections and interpretation time without exceeding preset tolerances for missed relevant accounts, citation failures, or disproportionate demotion.","contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The claim fails if routine digital-history systems are shown to implement substantially the same governed package already, or if blinded tasks show no reduction in mistaken-current selection or interpretation time, or show excess missed accounts, broken citations, or distributional harm relative to version-history-only discovery.","confidence":"MODERATE","search_limitations":"The bounded search retained exactly eight sources and covered six lanes, but only one retained non-English source, primarily English-language indexing, and no platform-level audit of a specific living history corpus. It cannot exclude unindexed local workflows, proprietary repository features, or practices described only in internal manuals."},"researchability_gates":{"externally_supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Observed outdated museum interpretation, sparse version and persistent-link practices, and measured annotation breakage establish a real maintenance and provenance problem, although the proposed discovery-confusion mechanism still requires direct measurement.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4","SRC7"]},"identifiable_adopter_or_authorizer":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Museum curatorial teams, digital-edition publishers, and repository institutions are identifiable decision makers, with the Western Development Museum and Cambridge providing concrete organizational examples.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4","SRC6","SRC8"]},"distinct_testable_incremental_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Prior art supplies versioning, review, supersession, withdrawal, and archival recovery separately, but leaves a falsifiable incremental comparison of lifecycle-aware discovery against version-history-only discovery in a historiographically plural corpus.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4","SRC5","SRC6"]},"bounded_next_evidence_step":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A frozen finite collection can be exhaustively inventoried and classified, after which blinded tasks can compare the unchanged production index with a shadow index using labels and demotion; no deletion or public relabeling is required.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC5","SRC7"]},"no_unresolved_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The first step can remain nonpublic, reversible, and non-destructive. 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Enumerate every interpretive overlay and dependency; have the authorized board assign provisional states and protected exceptions; then run blinded retrieval and interpretation tasks comparing the current index with lifecycle labels and shadow demotion. Measure mistaken-current selection, task time, missed relevant accounts, citation failures, and demotion rates by represented scholarly school or source community. Make no public changes and restore the original index automatically if any preset tolerance is exceeded.","world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded search supports only an adjacent-prior-art disposition and a distinct empirical increment. It does not establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, routine adoption across all repositories, or realized scholarly or public impact."}