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This substantially reproduces the proposal's sentinel-to-inspection-to-response pathway.","remaining_difference":"It does not specify a unified legal-records protocol combining paper, seal, corrosion, humidity-time, and pollutant witnesses with blinded checks, material-class recalibration, custody controls, and deterioration-rate comparisons.","source_ids":["SRC2"]},{"name":"MEMORI material-response dosimetry and traffic-light risk assessment","overlap":"Uses co-located sacrificial polymer and glass dosimeters plus passive pollutant samplers, repeated three-month exposures, calibrated optical readings, material-specific risk bands, and red/yellow/green escalation. Research deployments included storage rooms, enclosures, books, paper, and probative objects, and findings supported protective enclosures and further conservation investigation.","remaining_difference":"MEMORI primarily assesses pollution and photo-oxidation risk; it does not establish the proposal's complete multi-material array, direct correlation against authoritative paper originals, legal-authority workflow, or superiority over scheduled inspection.","source_ids":["SRC3"]},{"name":"IPI A-D Strips collection survey and action levels","overlap":"First-party dye-coated paper sentinels are placed in cans, boxes, or cabinets, read against calibrated bands, recorded, used to survey collection condition, and linked to escalating preservation actions.","remaining_difference":"The product is specific to acetate-film deterioration and does not cover paper strength, seals, fastener corrosion, moisture history, or legally authoritative originals.","source_ids":["SRC4"]},{"name":"NARA archival preservation and conservation practice","overlap":"Defines archival preservation as minimizing physical and chemical deterioration through stable environments, safe housing, examination, condition assessment, documented treatment, and remedial actions such as deacidification and custom housing.","remaining_difference":"It supplies the institutional preservation pathway but not the proposed sacrificial-sentinel ensemble or a predictive comparison against ordinary inspection.","source_ids":["SRC1"]}],"contrastive_claim_falsifier":"A blinded comparison would falsify the remaining claim if the integrated sentinel ensemble fails to predict direct material change, localization, or acceleration better than scheduled inspection or a conventional MEMORI/environmental-monitoring package, or if sentinel-triggered reversible controls fail to reduce subsequent deterioration in comparable zones.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"In repositories holding legally authoritative originals, a conservation-approved ensemble spanning cumulative moisture, acidic pollution, corrosion, and representative paper or seal response—recalibrated against bounded direct examinations—may provide earlier and more material-specific actionable warning than ordinary inspection or existing pollution-focused dosimetry alone. The legal-record setting by itself is not the novelty; the testable increment is predictive and operational improvement from the integrated, custody-compatible ensemble.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"PASS: sixteen public-web queries covered the proposal directly, historical terms such as dosimeter and witness coupon, products and standards-related practice including A-D strips and MEMORI, and combinations of pollution, humidity, corrosion, paper, and enclosure monitoring. Four opened sources from four publishers include two official sources, primary research, and a first-party product source. This is adequate for a coarse screen, though not an exhaustive prior-art or patent search.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"PASS: a reversible twelve-week feasibility test is operationally bounded and matches published practices using coupons for weeks or months and MEMORI exposures of three months. It can test contamination, reader agreement, spatial discrimination, reference stability, and correspondence with authorized condition checks. Twelve weeks is unlikely to establish reduced long-term deterioration, so a later controlled follow-up would be required for the full falsifier.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"PASS: although the core sentinel-and-response concept is established, the narrower claim that an integrated, custody-compatible, multi-material ensemble improves prediction and actionable lead time over scheduled inspection or conventional pollution-focused monitoring is distinct enough for a controlled comparison.","source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"no_obvious_safety_or_authority_stop":{"rationale":"PASS: the proposed first step keeps inert witnesses outside original enclosures, forbids alteration or evidentiary conclusions, limits direct examination to authorized samples, assigns intervention decisions to custodians and conservators, and includes removal and rollback. Remaining risks—indicator staining, contaminant emission, moisture retention, monitor interference, handling damage, and material-response mismatch—require conservation approval and pilot checks but are not obvious stops.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"},"supported_problem":{"rationale":"PASS: official archival guidance recognizes physical and chemical deterioration and the need for stable environments, examination, and treatment; official conservation guidance identifies enclosure off-gassing and pollutant risks; primary research measured conditions implying observable paper damage and active-conservation needs. The specific claim that decay of legal originals causes authenticity disputes was not directly demonstrated in the retained sources.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"ESTABLISHED_PRACTICE","problem_evidence":{"finding":"The underlying preservation problem is visible and supported: archival paper and related collection materials undergo environmentally driven physical and chemical deterioration, while localized pollutants and enclosure microclimates can require monitoring and corrective conservation. Evidence for the proposal's additional legal consequence—actual contestability or evidentiary failure caused by such decay—is indirect in this bounded source set.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3"],"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P154","screen_survival":false,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["archive preservation sacrificial coupons pollutant dosimeters paper collections corrosion coupons","museum archive multi dosimeter system corrosion coupons acid strips humidity indicators preventive conservation","museum environmental corrosivity coupon monitoring preventive conservation action threshold","dosimeter material response monitoring archive collections preventive conservation thresholds"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC3"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["legal records archives original documents conservation 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methods include pH strips, A-D strips, metal coupons, diffusion tubes, periodic object inspection, and repeated filter-performance monitoring.","Guidance connects findings to sorbents, filtration, ventilation, enclosure control, exposure reduction, and periodic collection inspection while warning about detection limits, interference, equilibration, and coupon-response limitations."],"publisher":"Canadian Conservation Institute, Government of Canada","source_id":"SRC2","source_type":"OFFICIAL_GUIDANCE","title":"Control of Pollutants in Museums and Archives – Technical Bulletin 37","url":"https://www.canada.ca/en/conservation-institute/services/conservation-preservation-publications/technical-bulletins/pollutants-museums-archives.html"},{"claims_supported":["MEMORI uses material-response dosimeters and passive pollutant samplers in storage rooms and enclosures over three-month exposures.","Dosimeter changes are optically measured and translated into material-specific traffic-light bands representing expected time to observable damage and conservation need.","The study found risks to paper and other materials, identified enclosure microclimates, supported mitigation, and cautioned that generic risk indications require conservator diagnosis and do not replace knowledge of actual objects."],"publisher":"Springer Nature, Heritage Science","source_id":"SRC3","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"Indoor air pollution impact on cultural heritage in an urban and a rural location in Romania: the National Military Museum in Bucharest and the Tismana monastery in Gorj County","url":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-018-0238-6"},{"claims_supported":["A-D Strips are first-party sacrificial colorimetric indicators for detecting, measuring, and recording acetate-film deterioration inside collection enclosures.","Readings use calibrated condition bands and are linked to escalating monitoring, cold storage, freezing, and copying actions.","The product is explicitly limited to acetate film, demonstrating both close prior art and a material-scope limitation."],"publisher":"Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology","source_id":"SRC4","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","title":"Using A-D Strips","url":"https://filmcare.org/ad_strips"}],"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded screen found established preventive-conservation practice closely matching the proposal's core mechanism: expendable material-response indicators are co-located with collections, measured after cumulative exposure, interpreted using calibrated risk bands, checked alongside object condition, and connected to physical mitigation. It does not establish whether the exact integrated ensemble and custody protocol has been implemented for legally authoritative originals, nor can it establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, or realized value."}