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It would also fail operationally if the proposed pilot offers no reproducibility or discrepancy-detection advantage over reviewers using the existing source-linked records.","contrastive_claim_remaining":"For one completed public-body decision, a canonical bitemporal authority-event substrate may enable independently reproducible, discardable projections of officeholding, delegated scope, matter eligibility, attendance, quorum, and recorded participation that the closest document, civic-data, and meeting-management approaches do not publicly demonstrate as one governed capability.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","gates":{"adequate_source_search":{"rationale":"Four lanes were searched: the proposal directly, older civic and legislative data terminology, public-meeting products and standards, and combinations of membership, provenance, quorum, voting, lifecycle, and bitemporal/event-sourcing concepts. All four retained direct sources were opened; they span four publishers and include a GAO study, an OASIS standard, and first-party product documentation.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"bounded_next_test":{"rationale":"The proposed test is limited to one completed decision, public records, at most 35 assertions, one pinned projector, three checkpoints, and two independent reviewers. Appointment documentation and meeting outputs identified in the sources provide concrete comparison inputs, while the test has explicit stop conditions and no operational effect.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2","SRC3","SRC4"],"status":"PASS"},"distinct_testable_claim":{"rationale":"The remaining claim is narrower than source-linked membership data, legislative-document lifecycle markup, or integrated roll-call and vote capture: it requires dual-time canonical authority assertions plus pinned, frontier-visible, rebuildable decision-time projections. 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These sources make fragmented authority and participation evidence visible, although they do not directly measure the full claimed inability to replay a decision-time knowledge state.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"status":"PASS"}},"prior_art_disposition":"ADJACENT_PRIOR_ART","problem_evidence":{"finding":"The problem is partly visible. GAO documented gaps in appointment packets and ethics-program review for public advisory committees, while meeting-management practice separately captures roll call, minutes, votes, and actions. The retained evidence supports the existence and consequence of dispersed authority and participation records, but does not directly establish the proposal's universal or full-strength claim that reviewers cannot reconstruct the complete decision-time state without manual reconciliation.","source_ids":["SRC1","SRC2"],"status":"PARTLY_SUPPORTED"},"research_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_light_screen_20260806","schema_version":1,"screen_id":"E13P157","screen_survival":true,"search_lanes":{"component_combination":{"no_result_note":"No retained source demonstrated the complete combination of append-only authority assertions, effective-time/record-time separation, provenance reconciliation, pinned eligibility and quorum projections, completeness frontiers, and replay-and-diff.","queries":["bitemporal event sourcing authority appointments quorum votes public body","legislative membership provenance quorum voting lifecycle events","append-only appointment delegation recusal attendance quorum event ledger"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]},"direct_problem_and_intervention":{"no_result_note":"No direct implementation of a 'decision-authority event ledger' for a public multimember body was found in the retained results.","queries":["decision-authority event ledger public-body quorum participation","public board reconstruct historical authorized membership recusal quorum vote","government advisory committee appointment ethics documentation audit"],"source_ids":["SRC1"]},"products_practices_and_standards":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["public board meeting software attendance quorum recusal voting audit trail","government meeting management roll call minutes votes actions public portal","official standard parliamentary roll call quorum voting provenance"],"source_ids":["SRC2","SRC4"]},"synonyms_and_historical_terms":{"no_result_note":null,"queries":["legislative data model membership terms attendance votes provenance","civic data specification posts memberships motions vote events","parliamentary informatics lifecycle workflow roll call voting report"],"source_ids":["SRC3","SRC4"]}},"sources":[{"claims_supported":["EPA advisory-committee appointment packets for two committees lacked required membership documentation.","GAO found inadequate assurance concerning ethics-review compliance and recommended stronger documentation and review.","Public-body membership and ethics evidence can require review across guidance, appointment packets, disclosures, databases, and committee records."],"publisher":"U.S. Government Accountability Office","source_id":"SRC1","source_type":"PRIMARY_RESEARCH","title":"EPA Advisory Committees: Improvements Needed for the Member Appointment Process","url":"https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-19-280"},{"claims_supported":["Legistar captures roll call, minutes, votes, and actions during meetings.","It publishes agendas and minutes through a searchable public portal.","Integrated meeting-management software is a close operational rival for participation records."],"publisher":"Granicus","source_id":"SRC2","source_type":"FIRST_PARTY_PRODUCT","title":"Agenda LE (Legistar Agenda Management)","url":"https://granicus.com/product/agenda-management-legistar/"},{"claims_supported":["Popolo models people, organizations, posts, time-bounded memberships, meetings, motions, vote events, and votes.","Resources support permanent identifiers, creation and modification metadata, and source references.","Popolo is adjacent prior art for normalized civic authority and participation data."],"publisher":"Popolo Project","source_id":"SRC3","source_type":"OTHER","title":"Popolo Data Specification","url":"https://www.popoloproject.com/specs/"},{"claims_supported":["Akoma Ntoso is an OASIS standard for legal and parliamentary documents.","Its debate model covers roll calls and voting reports, while parliamentary analysis can represent quorum calls, recounts, and voting.","It provides source-attributed metadata, workflow steps, and lifecycle events for document modifications."],"publisher":"OASIS Open","source_id":"SRC4","source_type":"OFFICIAL_STANDARD","title":"Akoma Ntoso Version 1.0 Part 1: XML Vocabulary","url":"https://docs.oasis-open.org/legaldocml/akn-core/v1.0/os/part1-vocabulary/akn-core-v1.0-os-part1-vocabulary.pdf"}],"world_novelty_boundary":"This bounded four-source screen found substantial adjacent components but no opened source demonstrating the full governed bitemporal authority-projection combination. That result does not establish world novelty, patentability, market size, expert acceptance, implementation feasibility, or realized value."}