{"actors":["Literary scholars conducting close readings","Seminar participants contributing provisional observations","A designated dossier editor or research lead who validates durable entries"],"affected_objective":"Preserve text-grounded interpretive observations from live reading while maintaining a coherent, provenance-bearing body of claims that can support later criticism, teaching, or revision.","arm":"COMMON_P1","authority_safety":{"authorized_first_step":"Run a reversible pilot on one public-domain short text using local copies of the two templates; record process measures without changing grading, publication, or archival policy.","decision_authority":"Readers control their own provisional traces; the designated dossier editor approves promotion, merging, and correction; the cited primary text remains authoritative for quotations and locations.","excluded_actions":["Automatically treating provisional interpretations as established findings","Promoting uncited claims into the durable dossier","Storing confidential peer comments or identifiable student evaluations in the fast layer","Overwriting dissenting interpretations merely to force consensus","Using the pilot output for grading, publication, or personnel decisions"],"halt_rollback":"Stop if contributors cannot distinguish provisional from validated material, source locations are repeatedly lost, or the transfer queue exceeds the pilot's review capacity; freeze promotion, retain an export of both layers and the audit log, and revert to the pre-pilot note workflow."},"baseline":"Readers use marginalia, discussion notes, or a single cumulative document. Immediate capture is easy, but later synthesis is irregular: some observations disappear, duplicates accumulate, provisional impressions persist without status markers, and durable arguments become difficult to trace back to particular words or passages.","candidate_id":"fast_slow_store_coupling__literature_literary_theory__COMMON_P1","causal_chain":["During reading or seminar discussion, participants capture low-friction, passage-addressed observations in the fast trace ledger.","Each trace receives a timestamp, contributor, textual locator, provisional interpretation, and confidence or uncertainty marker before conversational context fades.","Risk triggers immediately protect traces involving disputed quotations, variant editions, or claims likely to influence the emerging argument; routine traces await the scheduled consolidation session.","At consolidation, the editor checks quotations and locators, separates observation from inference, deduplicates overlaps, links tensions, and records discarded or unresolved items rather than silently deleting them.","Validated material is promoted into a slow interpretation dossier organized as claim-evidence-counterreading records with provenance and version history.","Fast traces expire after the review window unless protected, promoted, or explicitly retained as unresolved; the ledger is then refreshed for the next reading cycle.","A reconciliation check compares promoted records with later fast-layer corrections and the primary text, reopening any dossier entry whose evidence, edition, or attribution conflicts.","The bounded fast layer preserves immediacy, while governed transformation and reconciliation preserve durable interpretive coherence."],"cell_id":"fast_slow_store_coupling__literature_literary_theory","consequence":"Potentially useful local observations are lost or detached from their textual evidence, while unchecked provisional impressions can harden into durable interpretations; later writers must either reconstruct the reading process or rely on an incoherent accumulation of notes.","diversity_from_prior_proposals":"Not assessed against prior proposals because runtime isolation forbids inspecting them; this candidate is characterized independently by passage-level live traces coupled to a versioned claim-evidence-counterreading dossier.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","intervention":"Introduce a two-register close-reading workflow. A bounded fast trace ledger accepts immediate, mutable, passage-addressed observations during reading and discussion. At a fixed post-session review plus specified risk triggers, selected traces enter a consolidation process that verifies textual locations, distinguishes observation from inference, deduplicates related notes, preserves uncertainty and dissent, and promotes qualifying material into a versioned interpretation dossier. The dossier is authoritative for reusable arguments; the ledger is authoritative only as a record of what participants provisionally noticed. Expiration, promotion, correction, and conflict rules prevent either register from becoming an unmarked shadow authority.","mechanism_mapping":[{"counterfactual_removal":"Without two distinct stores, capture must either bear the full burden of canonical organization during live reading or sacrifice durable coherence afterward.","mechanism_slug":"two_store_architecture","role":"Separates a quick, mutable trace ledger from a slower, integrated interpretation dossier."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without scheduled and triggered consolidation, fragile observations remain stranded in the ledger or are transferred indiscriminately.","mechanism_slug":"memory_consolidation","role":"Moves selected traces into durable claim-evidence structures before context is lost."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without locality, readers must interrupt attention to navigate the full dossier for each observation, undermining immediate capture.","mechanism_slug":"locality_of_reference","role":"Keeps the active passage and its recent observations close to the reader during live work."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without provenance-preserving versions, later corrections could silently replace earlier interpretations and obscure disagreement.","mechanism_slug":"versioning","role":"Records promotion, correction, supersession, and reopening of durable entries."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without explicit integrity checks, miscitation, edition conflicts, and unsupported inference could be canonized during transfer.","mechanism_slug":"data_integrity","role":"Requires locator verification and observation-inference separation before promotion."}],"nearest_rivals":["Ordinary marginalia or a seminar scratchpad: supports rapid capture but lacks obligatory transformation into a coherent durable store.","A single continuously organized research notebook: provides one durable location but makes live capture compete with classification, validation, and integration.","A searchable annotation repository: retains annotations but need not distinguish provisional traces from validated claim-evidence records or govern transfer between them.","Periodic summary writing: compresses a reading session but may discard trace-level provenance, dissent, and explicit reconciliation with later corrections."],"negative_tests":{"intervention_falsifier":"The intervention is undermined if, under the same reading task, the two-register workflow does not reduce orphaned high-priority traces or unsupported promoted claims relative to the single-document baseline, or if participants routinely rely on expired ledger entries despite authority markers.","problem_falsifier":"The inferred problem is weakened if baseline observations already remain reliably passage-linked, are consistently integrated before context loss, retain visible uncertainty and provenance, and can be reconciled without interrupting live reading.","risks":["Review labor may exceed the value of retained traces.","Frequent promotion may canonize transient or socially dominant readings.","Strict validation may suppress speculative but generative interpretations.","The fast ledger may become a distracting accumulation or an unofficial source of truth.","Editor authority may flatten legitimate interpretive plurality.","Contributor identity or classroom power relations may make provisional notes sensitive.","Edition mismatches may create false conflicts or incorrect textual locators."],"strongest_counterevidence":"Interpretive plurality may be better served by independent, persistent notebooks than by consolidation into a shared dossier; the proposed slow store could impose artificial coherence on readings whose value lies in unresolved incompatibility."},"next_evidence_step":"For one public-domain short story and one reading session, compare the existing single-document workflow with a two-register session using the same participants or matched groups. Predefine a small set of process measures: time to record an observation, proportion of protected traces reviewed before expiration, proportion of promoted claims with verified passage locators, duplicate merges, unresolved disagreements preserved, stale-ledger uses, review minutes, and transfer backlog. End after the scheduled consolidation and one delayed retrieval task; do not infer broader effects from this pilot.","observable_state":"During live reading, observations appear rapidly in marginalia, chat, or an undifferentiated shared document. Entries vary in textual location, certainty, and authorship; later synthesis leaves a visible residue of uncited claims, duplicate notes, unresolved edition conflicts, and observations that participants remember but cannot recover or connect to the durable argument.","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","problem":"Live close reading produces fragile, context-rich observations faster than scholars can validate and integrate them into a durable interpretation. Requiring immediate formalization disrupts attention to the text, but postponing all organization allows passage-level evidence, uncertainty, and dissent to decay or be overwritten.","proposal_index":1,"remaining_contrastive_claim":"Relative to a single notebook, ordinary marginalia, or retention-only annotation repository, the candidate's distinctive causal claim is that rapid literary observation and durable interpretive coherence can coexist only when provisional traces and validated claims have different stores, and when promotion includes mandatory provenance-preserving transformation, bounded expiration, visible authority, and reconciliation. If simple retention or periodic summary performs equivalently on trace preservation, claim support, stale use, and review burden, this contrast fails.","revision_record":{"claim_changes":[],"conceptual_changes":["Initial formulation of a fast trace ledger coupled to a durable interpretation dossier for literary close reading."],"evidence_changes":["No external evidence or prior-art search used; all empirical propositions remain untested."],"operational_changes":["Specified routing, transfer cadence, risk triggers, consolidation checks, expiration, authority markers, reconciliation, rollback, and a bounded pilot."],"parent_version":null,"progress_targets_addressed":["Concrete domain problem","Observable state and consequence","Actor and authority specification","Structural and mechanism preservation","Contrast with nearest rivals","Falsifiers, risks, safeguards, and bounded evidence step"]},"schema_version":1,"structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"Fast Volatile Store","domain_realization":"A session-bounded trace ledger for immediate passage locators, noticed forms, interpretive hunches, questions, and uncertainty markers."},{"archetype_element":"Slow Integrated Store","domain_realization":"A versioned interpretation dossier containing validated claim-evidence-counterreading records reusable across writing, teaching, and later readings."},{"archetype_element":"Read/Write Routing Rule","domain_realization":"Live observations write to the ledger; verified quotations, bibliographic facts, and approved durable claims write to or require confirmation from the dossier; primary-text corrections bypass routine delay."},{"archetype_element":"Transfer Trigger or Cadence","domain_realization":"Routine review occurs after each reading session; disputed quotations, edition discrepancies, and argument-critical traces trigger earlier protection and review."},{"archetype_element":"Consolidation Transform","domain_realization":"Verification of textual location and wording, separation of observation from inference, deduplication, normalization of references, linking of counterreadings, and preservation of provenance and uncertainty."},{"archetype_element":"Promotion and Eviction Rule","domain_realization":"Promote traces that are text-locatable and relevant to an active question, retain explicitly unresolved tensions, and expire unprotected routine traces after the review window with a logged disposition."},{"archetype_element":"Interference and Overwrite Guard","domain_realization":"Protected flags and immutable snapshots prevent disputed or high-value traces from being overwritten before review."},{"archetype_element":"Freshness and Authority Marker","domain_realization":"Every item is visibly labeled provisional, protected, promoted, superseded, unresolved, or expired; only promoted dossier records are authoritative for reusable arguments."},{"archetype_element":"Consistency Reconciliation Check","domain_realization":"Later corrections and edition changes are compared with dossier records through versioned reopen, merge, supersede, or dissent-preservation paths."}],"title":"Trace Ledger to Interpretation Dossier","version":0}