{"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__B","search_lanes":{"direct_problem":{"queries":["historiography \"archival silence\" narrative continuity evidence uncertainty","history writing visual lacuna evidentiary gap reader","historical narrative distinguish fact inference speculation editorial convention","reader study citations confidence historical claims uncertainty"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC5","SRC6"],"no_result_note":null},"closest_prior_art":{"queries":["digital history visualize uncertainty gaps evidence narrative reader study","\"historical uncertainty\" visualization reader study narrative","\"uncertainty\" \"historical narrative\" digital humanities visualization","historical edition editorial standard mark lacuna conjectural restoration brackets"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4","SRC7"],"no_result_note":null},"historical_terminology":{"queries":["\"argument from silence\" historical method evidence source survival","French \"silences de l'archive\" historien récit lacunes","German Geschichtsschreibung \"Lücken\" Quellenlage kennzeichnen Unsicherheit"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC4","SRC5"],"no_result_note":null},"products_practices_standards":{"queries":["site:tei-c.org Guidelines gap element supplied unclear certainty manuscript lacuna","site:tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/ref-gap.html TEI gap reason extent unit","museum exhibit uncertainty labels visitor study historical interpretation","official archival guidance community consultation description Indigenous protocols archives"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4","SRC7","SRC8"],"no_result_note":null},"non_english_regional":{"queries":["site:openedition.org \"silence des archives\" historiens lacunes récit","site:francearchives.gouv.fr \"silences des archives\"","German Geschichtsschreibung \"Lücken\" Quellenlage kennzeichnen Unsicherheit","site:archivogeneral.gov.co \"silencios de los archivos\" historia"],"source_ids":["SRC4","SRC5"],"no_result_note":null},"composition_subproblems":{"queries":["epistemic uncertainty markers reader confidence comprehension study text","citation presence reader confidence claim credibility experiment","digital history visualize uncertainty gaps evidence narrative reader study","museum exhibit uncertainty labels visitor study historical interpretation"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC6","SRC7","SRC8"],"no_result_note":null}},"sources":[{"source_id":"SRC1","title":"Mapping archival silence: technology and the historical record","url":"https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/engaging-with-records-and-archives/mapping-archival-silence-technology-and-the-historical-record/82C4146099301513C2768440861E47E3","publisher":"Facet Publishing / Cambridge University Press","date_or_year":"2016; 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It was not an exhaustive search of books, dissertations, publisher style manuals, museum intranets, non-indexed regional scholarship, or proprietary editorial workflows. Several sources exposed only abstracts or summaries. The search cannot establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, routine prevalence, or realized impact."},"researchability_gates":{"externally_supported_problem":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Independent historiographic and archival sources establish consequential archival silence, source-producing power, and misleading impressions of completeness; adjacent reader research makes the proposed presentation mechanism plausible enough to test, although the synthesis-specific prevalence claim is not yet proven.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC5","SRC6"]},"identifiable_adopter_or_authorizer":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Editorial boards, responsible historians, digital-edition leads, museum curators, and archival institutions are identifiable decision roles, with public examples of those roles authorizing encoding or label changes.","source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4","SRC7","SRC8"]},"distinct_testable_incremental_claim":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"Close practices mark or visualize absence, but the retained evidence does not show the full synthesis-prose intervention or its proposed comparative calibration outcome. The remaining claim specifies population, treatments, outcomes, rivals, and failure conditions.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4","SRC7"]},"bounded_next_evidence_step":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"One chapter can first receive a blinded source-to-sentence audit; if consequential unsupported transitions are present, readers can be randomized to baseline, inline-label, and bounded-lacuna versions with preregistered calibration, comprehension, recall, inclusion, and accessibility outcomes.","source_ids":["SRC6","SRC7"]},"no_unresolved_safety_or_authority_stop":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"A nonpublic, reversible test lies within editorial authority. Community-sensitive material requires consultation, and nonvisual labels plus retained context are mandatory. The SAA protocols identify relevant community authority rather than creating an unresolvable stop; the trial can exclude material lacking appropriate consultation.","source_ids":["SRC7","SRC8"]},"adequate_search_evidence":{"status":"PASS","rationale":"The search covered the direct problem, closest prior art, historical terminology, products/practices/standards, non-English and regional language, and component combinations. The eight retained sources span seven publisher or institutional contexts and include an official standard, official professional guidance, first-party practice, and primary research.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4","SRC5","SRC6","SRC7","SRC8"]}},"strict_success":true,"screen_survival":true,"remaining_research_value":"HIGH","recommended_next_step":"Preregister a two-stage, nonpublic study of one duplicated synthesis chapter: conduct a blinded source-to-sentence audit and baseline reader test first; only if unsupported transitions and excess confidence are detected, randomize readers to ordinary prose, inline confidence labels, and bounded labeled lacunae. Require community review for sensitive gaps, screen-reader-compatible text cues, preserved provenance and contrary evidence, and rollback if comprehension or inclusion worsens without a calibration gain.","world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded public-web review found adjacent but not colliding prior art. It does not establish world novelty, patentability, freedom to operate, market size, routine adoption, or realized impact; unindexed, paywalled, non-English, historical, or proprietary practices may contain a closer match."}