{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp11_mechanism_context_external20_20260804","research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp11_external_scrutiny_20260804","cell_id":"negative_space_design__history_historiography","opaque_id":"negative_space_design__history_historiography__A","search_lanes":{"direct_problem":{"queries":["historical narrative archival gaps readers uncertainty unsupported continuity study","historiography narrative continuity archival silence evidence gaps","study narrative coherence increases confidence causal inference readers history","historical narratives readers overconfidence causality continuity evidence experiment"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC8"],"no_result_note":null},"closest_prior_art":{"queries":["history writing mark gaps uncertainty reader confidence","visualize uncertainty historical timelines archival gaps","\"archival gaps\" \"narrative\" historians uncertainty readers","\"blank space\" historical narrative archival 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India","url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/historical-gaps-and-nonexistent-sources-the-case-of-the-chaudrie-court-in-french-india/6ACB6048C106B58384A13B772CC6C5A9","publisher":"Cambridge University Press, Comparative Studies in Society and History","date_or_year":"2021","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","language":"English","claims_supported":["Physical, historiographic, and epistemological gaps occur in historical research and can constitute one another.","Even apparently cohesive archives contain, obscure, or create gaps that structure what historians can know.","Explicitly accounting for archival limits can generate methodological innovation, while the boundaries and causes of gaps may be politically produced and uncertain."]},{"source_id":"SRC2","title":"Causal Narratives","url":"https://www.nber.org/papers/w30346","publisher":"National Bureau of Economic Research","date_or_year":"2022; revised 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Editing","date_or_year":"2008, third edition","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","language":"English","claims_supported":["Documentary editors routinely use visible symbols and notes for unrecoverable source-text gaps, editorial supplies, alternative readings, and omissions.","Historical editions use multiple conventions to indicate the approximate extent and nature of missing material.","The guide distinguishes visible in-text signals, adjacent notes, recoverable back-of-book records, and silent emendations, establishing both an adopter class and mature adjacent practice."]},{"source_id":"SRC7","title":"Voicing Silences in the Colonial Photographic Archive","url":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/var.70007","publisher":"Wiley on behalf of the American Anthropological Association","date_or_year":"2025","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","language":"English","claims_supported":["Archival silence can arise from epistemic violence or from resistance, so its meaning cannot safely be inferred from absence alone.","Speculatively giving voice to silent historical subjects can undermine their agency.","Affected-community knowledge and multiple adjacent media can be necessary when interpreting archival silence, supporting review and context-preservation guardrails."]},{"source_id":"SRC8","title":"‘침묵’의 해석 — 사회사/역사사회학의 사료에서 드러나지 않는 목소리와 그 함의 (Interpreting ‘Silence’: Unheard Voices in Social History and Comparative-Historical Sociology and Their Implications)","url":"https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART003195001","publisher":"Korean Social History Association / Korea Citation Index","date_or_year":"2025","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","language":"Korean, with English abstract","claims_supported":["A comparative-historical analysis of Korean state records finds that silence operates across sources, repositories, narratives, and history.","Institutional omission and social 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It covered archival-gap terminology, causal-narrative evidence, historical uncertainty visualization, current and older editorial conventions, Korean regional scholarship, and combinations of the component subproblems. Indexing and access constraints, limited non-English coverage, and the absence of an exhaustive survey of books, editions, software, design archives, and local institutional practices mean that an unlocated close implementation may exist."},"researchability_gates":{"externally_supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Independent historical research establishes consequential archival gaps and structured silences, historical visualization research documents suppressed uncertainty, and experiments show that causal narratives can mislead. 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Measure documented/conjectural/unknown classification, calibrated causal confidence, evidence-of-nonoccurrence errors, comprehension, recall, accessibility, and context recoverability; obtain responsible-editor and affected-party review before testing and restore baseline passages if the halt criteria are met.","world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded public-web review supports only an ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART disposition and a distinct next research claim. It cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, routine adoption across all historical practice, or realized impact."}