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It was tested with Dead Sea Scroll parchment and modern parchment.","remaining_difference":"It does not demonstrate the proposal's complete operational package for unique literary paper manuscripts: registered crack, perforation, deformation, and ink-halo histories; unattached in-enclosure witness coupons; material-specific escalation bands; blinded conservator confirmation; and a defined response workflow.","source_ids":["SRC2"]},{"name":"Library of Congress integrated hyperspectral-imaging program","overlap":"Uses low-light, non-invasive spectral and raking-light imaging on manuscripts and other documents; establishes baselines; maps material regions; tracks environmentally or treatment-induced change over time; and can reveal change before unaided observation.","remaining_difference":"The public project description does not establish recurring collection-scale warning thresholds, coupon integration, independently measured false-alarm performance, or demonstrated prioritization of conservation responses over ordinary surveys.","source_ids":["SRC3"]},{"name":"Metropolitan Museum of Art Oddy Test benchmarking","overlap":"Uses sacrificial corrosion coupons, controls, standardized photography, damage classifications, and calibration work to identify reactive materials relevant to collection storage or display.","remaining_difference":"Oddy testing is an accelerated ex-situ material-compatibility test, not continuous or recurring witnessing inside a manuscript enclosure. The Met also warns that metal coupons are imperfect proxies for paper and that procedures and visual ratings vary.","source_ids":["SRC4"]}],"contrastive_claim_falsifier":"The remaining claim would be falsified if the pilot cannot reproduce registered feature measurements beyond repositioning and instrument uncertainty; if alerts fail blinded conservator confirmation or do not outperform existing condition-survey prioritization; if in-enclosure coupons lack object-relevant correspondence or contaminate enclosures; or if measurement light and handling create risk comparable to the deterioration being sought.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"A conservator-governed deployment that combines repeatable low-dose maps of literary-manuscript features with pre-screened, unattached in-enclosure witnesses and item-specific uncertainty bands may improve actionable prioritization beyond existing imaging, condition reporting, and environmental monitoring. The novelty-bearing portion is this validated operational combination, not multispectral early-change detection by itself.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"Four search lanes covered the direct proposal, older and synonymous terminology, institutional practices and guidance, and combinations of imaging, condition trending, and sacrificial coupons. Four opened direct sources span four publishers and include primary research and official or first-party institutional sources. The search is adequate for a coarse screen, although not exhaustive.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"The ten-object, twelve-week pilot is bounded and can test repeatability, registration error, light dose, handling burden, false alarms, coupon correspondence, and whether warnings have feasible responses. Because natural deterioration may be slow, it cannot by itself establish long-term predictive value; SRC2 supports replicated baseline characterization, while SRC4 shows why proxy coupons require controls and cautious interpretation.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"Although early non-invasive imaging and statistical deterioration detection substantially collide with prior art, a narrower falsifiable claim remains concerning whether manuscript-specific feature maps plus unattached enclosure witnesses and conservator-confirmed thresholds improve actionable prioritization over existing surveys and environmental monitoring.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"No obvious stop applies to the limited pilot because it is noncontact, light-budgeted, reversible, and reserves diagnosis and treatment or access decisions for qualified conservators and curators. Official guidance favors minimal handling, and prior imaging work describes reduced-light or safe-conservation illumination. Coupon contamination and proxy mismatch remain monitored halt conditions.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"Official guidance documents deterioration, cracking, losses, fading, handling damage, and humidity-driven dimensional changes in paper and inks. The primary study and Library of Congress program independently treat subtle, initially unaided-eye-invisible change in manuscripts or related heritage surfaces as a conservation-monitoring problem.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"SUBSTANTIAL_COLLISION","problem_evidence":{"finding":"The material-loss problem is visible: paper objects face chemical, optical, environmental, and handling deterioration; iron-gall ink can migrate, corrode paper, and produce cracks and losses; light-sensitive media fade; and relevant surface changes may precede unaided-eye detection. The sources do not quantify prevalence specifically across unique literary-manuscript archives.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P136","screen_survival":false,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":"No retained source described the exact combination of recurring registered manuscript-feature metrology, unattended in-enclosure cellulose or corrosion witnesses, item-specific uncertainty bands, and conservator-confirmed response triggers. This bounded non-result is not evidence of novelty.","queries":["repeat multispectral imaging image registration cultural heritage deterioration statistical process control","manuscript enclosure corrosion coupon witness material condition monitoring","registered crack growth color change sacrificial coupon paper conservation"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["literary manuscripts condition monitoring repeat photography fixed geometry color change crack growth conservation","cultural heritage manuscript deterioration monitoring image registration reflectance repeat imaging","multispectral imaging monitoring conservation Dead Sea Scrolls deterioration before human eye"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"]},"products_practices_and_standards":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["museum conservation Oddy test corrosion coupons archival enclosure","FADGI cultural heritage imaging calibration color target repeatability","official paper object preventive conservation condition documentation"],"source_ids":["SRC1","SRC3","SRC4"]},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["surface artifacts monitoring multispectral imaging conservation state","preventive conservation condition reporting repeat photographic documentation","Oddy test witness coupon off-gassing museum storage"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"]}},"sources":[{"claims_supported":["Paper collections are vulnerable to inherent instability, environmental conditions, handling, and storage.","Iron-gall ink corrosion can expand under moisture or high relative humidity and cause cracks and losses at ink lines.","Visible light can fade colorants, while humidity changes can cause reversible dimensional movement.","Minimal handling, supports, enclosures, and controlled access are established preventive practices."],"publisher":"Canadian Conservation Institute, Government of Canada","source_id":"SRC1","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","title":"Caring for paper objects — Preventive conservation guidelines for collections","url":"https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/preventive-conservation/guidelines-collections/paper-objects.html"},{"claims_supported":["A 2011 technique combined multispectral imaging, multivariate analysis, and statistical process control to monitor heritage surfaces.","It sought automatic detection, localization, and identification of deterioration before unaided-eye visibility and used Dead Sea Scroll parchment plus a degraded modern-parchment experiment.","It proposed repeated reflectance imaging and comparison, reduced-light LED acquisition, pixel-level control limits, and replicated characterization to estimate natural variability.","The authors warned that inadequate characterization of real variability would generate false alarms."],"publisher":"Elsevier, Analytica Chimica Acta","source_id":"SRC2","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"Development of a technique based on multi-spectral imaging for monitoring the conservation of cultural heritage objects","url":"https://cool.culturalheritage.org/byauth/marengo/marengo-2011-11-14-development-dead-sea-scrolls.pdf"},{"claims_supported":["The Library of Congress uses non-invasive hyperspectral, raking-light, and low-light LED imaging on manuscripts and other documents.","Its program establishes baseline data for inks, pigments, colorants, and substrates without sampling.","It reports tracking environmental or treatment change before unaided-eye observation and mapping regions of interest with multivariate processing."],"publisher":"Library of Congress","source_id":"SRC3","source_type":"OTHER","title":"Integrated Digital Imaging Systems: Hyperspectral Imaging","url":"https://www.loc.gov/preservation/scientists/projects/hyperspec_imaging.html"},{"claims_supported":["The Oddy Test is an established accelerated-aging practice using silver, copper, and lead coupons to assess reactive conservation, storage, or display materials.","Coupon proxies may overlook effects on paper and other artistic materials.","Procedural variation and subjective visual ratings limit reproducibility; controls, standardized photography, calibration, and paper-based alternatives are active research areas."],"publisher":"The Metropolitan Museum of Art","source_id":"SRC4","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","title":"Benchmarking the Oddy Test: Development of Damage Thresholds and a New Tool for Standardizing Material Tests for Cultural Heritage Institutions","url":"https://www.metmuseum.org/de/essays/benchmarking-oddy-test"}],"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded screen found a substantial collision with the core idea of repeated non-invasive spectral imaging, baseline variability estimation, spatial localization, statistical warning limits, detection before unaided vision, and conservator alerting. It did not establish whether the narrower combination involving literary-manuscript feature maps, in-enclosure unattached witnesses, and authority-bounded escalation has appeared elsewhere. The result cannot establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, realized value, or freedom to operate."}