{"abstention_reason":null,"arm":"SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","candidate_id":"second_system_complexity_restraint__literature_literary_theory__SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","cell_id":"second_system_complexity_restraint__literature_literary_theory","decision":"PROPOSAL","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","proposal":{"actors":["Literary-archive curators responsible for fragile manuscripts","Imaging conservators and book-support technicians","Literary scholars studying revisions, erasures, paper structure, ink, and inscription sequence","Photographers and instrument technicians operating the successor capture station","The repository authority responsible for artifact access and conservation limits"],"affected_objective":"Produce materially comparable images of literary manuscripts while limiting handling, illumination, heat, and configuration variability that can damage artifacts or confound interpretation of revisions and erased text.","arm":"SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","authority_safety":{"authorized_first_step":"Imaging conservators may construct and test one non-contact, mechanically keyed bench prototype using modern-paper surrogates bearing representative inks, erasures, folds, and overwriting; no collection object may enter the prototype test.","decision_authority":"The repository conservator has final authority over artifact exposure and handling; the imaging lead approves measurement repeatability; the curator authorizes any later bounded trial on a low-risk collection object.","excluded_actions":["Testing the prototype first on an original or unique manuscript","Using suction, adhesive registration marks, flattening pressure, or clamps on collection material","Introducing unfiltered ultraviolet or heat-producing illumination to an artifact","Treating enhanced image contrast as proof of an erased word or revision sequence without scholarly and conservation review","Retiring the proven predecessor station before the successor passes repeatability, dose, handling, and rollback tests"],"halt_rollback":"Stop immediately if cradle pressure, page displacement, surface temperature, illumination dose, or operator handling exceeds the repository's preset limit. Remove the successor cartridge, retain all observations, and return subsequent authorized capture to the intact predecessor station."},"baseline":"Replace the successful fixed-geometry manuscript camera with a flexible successor rig that combines hyperspectral, ultraviolet-fluorescence, infrared, raking-light, reflectance-transformation, microscopy, and three-dimensional capture around adjustable mounts, lights, lenses, and cradles, adding modalities as requested without a common physical datum, exposure ceiling, or stable core configuration.","candidate_id":"second_system_complexity_restraint__literature_literary_theory__SUBSTRATE_DIVERSE_P2","causal_chain":["A predecessor station succeeds because a fixed camera distance, limited illumination spectrum, stable cradle, and repeatable page position constrain both measurement variance and artifact exposure.","Its success reveals erased writing, revision layers, and material features, generating requests for additional spectral bands, angles, magnifications, and surface measurements.","New funding removes the predecessor's instrumental constraints, and the successor is designed to accommodate most postponed modalities in one adjustable apparatus.","Each added lamp, sensor, mount, and repositioning operation increases the number of optical geometries, calibration states, handling events, thermal loads, and cumulative photon doses.","Images from different configurations become harder to compare, while apparent textual features can arise from geometry or calibration changes rather than from the manuscript.","A fixed kinematic base, mechanically indexed cradle, and in-frame physical reference preserve the predecessor's useful geometric and radiometric constraints as the successor core.","Physically keyed cartridges admit one bounded modality at a time without moving the manuscript datum; incompatible or unvalidated configurations cannot attach to the core base.","Passive colorimetric dose witnesses and thermal indicators independently expose cumulative illumination and heating even if software logging or digital control is absent.","A separate surrogate-material bay permits later modalities to earn compatibility before receiving a keyed cartridge, preserving expansion without converting the core station into an unrestricted universal rig."],"cell_id":"second_system_complexity_restraint__literature_literary_theory","consequence":"The overloaded successor can produce visually persuasive but non-comparable evidence, multiply false claims about erased or revised language, slow corpus capture through repeated setup changes, and expose irreplaceable manuscripts to unnecessary handling, light, and heat.","diversity_from_prior_proposals":"Unlike P1's editorial charter for controlling interpretive and platform scope in a critical edition, this opportunity concerns the physical production of primary literary evidence. It addresses measurement drift and artifact exposure through mechanically constrained optics, passive dosimetry, and fixed spatial registration rather than backlog classification, publication governance, or interface staging.","experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp13_second_slot_policy60_20260806","intervention":"Build a Keyed Manuscript-Capture Spine. Preserve the predecessor's proven geometry in a rigid kinematic base with a non-contact book cradle, hard travel stops, indexed camera rail, fixed artifact datum, and a removable calibration witness that appears in every frame. Replace the successor's freely adjustable lamp-and-sensor field with mechanically keyed capture cartridges: the core visible-light cartridge fits immediately, while each later spectral or angular modality receives a distinct key only after surrogate testing establishes repeatability, thermal behavior, and exposure demand. Keep the manuscript stationary while cartridges register to the same datum. Place passive colorimetric dose witnesses and maximum-temperature indicators beside, but not on, the artifact so cumulative physical burden remains observable without software. Validate speculative modalities on a separate surrogate bay; only dimensionally compatible cartridges can enter the collection-object station. Digital capture and logging may support the station, but fixed geometry, incompatible physical keys, optical references, and passive exposure indicators provide its essential effect.","mechanism_mapping":[{"counterfactual_removal":"Without the fixed base, indexed rail, and cradle datum, the successor loses the predecessor constraint that made images spatially comparable and reduced repeated manuscript positioning.","mechanism_slug":"physical_constraint_memory_spine","role":"Materializes the predecessor's useful constraints as persistent geometric features rather than relying on operators to remember them."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without the keyed cartridge interface, unvalidated lights, sensors, and geometries can be attached directly to the collection-object station, recreating the released-ambition flood in hardware.","mechanism_slug":"mechanically_keyed_modality_gate","role":"Makes the stable visible-light configuration the successor core and physically separates it from later measurement ambitions."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without an in-frame material reference, changes in illumination, scale, focus, or spectral response can masquerade as differences in ink, erasure, or page surface.","mechanism_slug":"in_frame_measurement_witness","role":"Provides a shared optical and spatial comparator across permitted capture states."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without passive dose and temperature witnesses, cumulative light and heat burdens can remain invisible when digital logs fail, settings change, or modalities are combined.","mechanism_slug":"passive_exposure_budget","role":"Turns the successor's conservation budget into directly observable material state."},{"counterfactual_removal":"Without the separate surrogate bay, proposed modalities must either be rejected indefinitely or experimented with around originals, undermining both staged ambition and artifact safety.","mechanism_slug":"surrogate_modality_release_ladder","role":"Provides a physical later-stage path in which new cartridges can earn compatibility without destabilizing the collection-object core."}],"nearest_rivals":["A software-controlled universal imaging rig, which may automate settings but still depends on algorithms and configuration records for its essential restraint","Ordinary conservation exposure guidelines, which state acceptable limits but do not preserve a common physical datum or prevent incompatible configurations from reaching the manuscript","Post-processing image registration, which can align outputs computationally but cannot undo excess handling, heating, illumination, focus differences, or missing calibration evidence","A single fixed camera station, which preserves simplicity but supplies no controlled physical path for testing and later admitting justified new modalities"],"negative_tests":{"intervention_falsifier":"The intervention is falsified if blinded surrogate trials show that the keyed spine does not improve cross-session spatial and radiometric repeatability, does not reduce repositioning or exposure variance, or permits prohibited configurations as readily as the flexible rig.","problem_falsifier":"The diagnosis is absent if no successful constrained predecessor exists, if the proposed modalities are independently mandatory and already validated under a common physical datum, or if observed interpretive discrepancies persist when the same surrogate is captured repeatedly without changing geometry, illumination, handling, or calibration state.","risks":["Mechanical keys may create false confidence while poorly maintained cartridges drift internally.","A rigid cradle or stop could damage an artifact whose binding geometry falls outside the tested envelope.","Colorimetric dose witnesses may have insufficient spectral correspondence to the manuscript's actual sensitivity.","Conservators may overgeneralize surrogate results to historic papers and inks with different responses.","Restricting configurations may delay a modality capable of recovering genuinely important text.","The in-frame reference may obscure a small image region or introduce reflections if positioned badly."],"strongest_counterevidence":"If a flexible successor rig demonstrates equal or better blinded repeatability with fewer handling events and lower measured exposure across the intended corpus, or if manuscript variability prevents any shared physical datum from being used safely, the keyed-spine intervention loses its claimed advantage."},"next_evidence_step":"On inked and overwritten paper surrogates, compare the predecessor station, the proposed keyed spine, and a freely adjustable multimodal rig across five teardown-and-reassembly cycles operated by different technicians. Measure registration error, reference-target variance, focus variance, setup time, page repositioning count, peak temperature, cumulative colorimetric dose, and blinded readers' false detection of textual differences. Do not use collection material at this stage.","observable_state":"Plans for the successor station show multiple adjustable illumination arms, sensors, lenses, cradles, and capture sequences but no single artifact datum or cartridge boundary; requested modalities require repeated page repositioning; calibration targets and dose records vary by operator; and visually different renderings of the same surrogate produce disputed readings of apparent erasures or overwriting.","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","problem":"A literary archive's fixed-geometry manuscript-imaging pilot successfully revealed revisions and erased writing while keeping fragile volumes in a stable cradle under a narrow illumination range. The success has unlocked a better-funded successor, and scholars now want ultraviolet fluorescence, infrared, hyperspectral imaging, raking light, microscopy, reflectance transformation, and surface measurement in the same station. Treating the pilot's fixed geometry and limited spectrum only as deficiencies is producing a universal adjustable rig whose many capture states multiply manuscript handling, cumulative exposure, calibration drift, and interpretively consequential measurement differences.","proposal_index":2,"remaining_contrastive_claim":"A successor instrument that physically preserves the predecessor's common datum and admits new modalities through keyed, surrogate-validated cartridges should control measurement-state proliferation and artifact burden more reliably than either written exposure rules or an unrestricted multimodal rig; this remains a testable claim rather than an asserted effect.","revision_record":{"claim_changes":[],"conceptual_changes":[],"evidence_changes":[],"operational_changes":[],"parent_version":null,"progress_targets_addressed":["Created a materially independent second opportunity centered on manuscript measurement rather than edition scope","Made the essential causal substrate mechanical, optical, thermal, and dosimetric","Specified a reversible surrogate trial, artifact-safety authority, falsifiers, and counterevidence"]},"schema_version":1,"structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"Successful but constrained predecessor","domain_realization":"A fixed-geometry visible-light manuscript station that produced repeatable literary evidence while minimizing handling and exposure."},{"archetype_element":"Post-success ambition stockpile","domain_realization":"Requests for spectral, angular, microscopic, and surface modalities released by the pilot's successful recovery of revisions and erased text."},{"archetype_element":"Useful predecessor constraint memory","domain_realization":"The original camera distance, cradle datum, illumination envelope, and limited repositioning are embodied in the successor's rigid base and stops."},{"archetype_element":"Successor core contract","domain_realization":"Repeatable visible-light capture from the established artifact datum with bounded handling, dose, and temperature."},{"archetype_element":"Ambition triage gate","domain_realization":"A cartridge cannot physically mate with the collection station until surrogate tests establish its geometry, repeatability, exposure, and thermal envelope."},{"archetype_element":"Complexity and scope budget","domain_realization":"A bounded set of keyed capture states plus directly observed photon-dose, temperature, repositioning, and calibration limits."},{"archetype_element":"Staged successor release ladder","domain_realization":"Core visible capture, surrogate-bay validation, low-risk bounded trial, and later cartridge admission occur as distinct physical stages."},{"archetype_element":"Launchability and rollback","domain_realization":"The predecessor station remains intact, and any failed or unsafe modality can be removed as a cartridge without altering the artifact datum or disabling core capture."}],"substrate_contract":{"counterfactual_independence":"With all software, algorithms, databases, automated controls, and digital logs removed, the rigid datum, mechanical stops, incompatible cartridge keys, optical reference witness, passive dose badge, and maximum-temperature indicator still standardize geometry, block unvalidated configurations, and reveal physical exposure burden. Images could be recorded and measurements logged manually without losing the essential restraint.","forbidden_channel_audit":"Governance supports artifact authorization, and software may record images or metadata, but neither creates the essential effect. No scoring model, database, workflow, training program, incentive, information-routing system, or digital interlock substitutes for the physical keying, optical registration, spatial fixation, and material dosimetry.","primary_allowed_process":"MEASUREMENT_INSTRUMENTATION"},"title":"Keyed Capture Spine for a Multimodal Literary-Manuscript Successor","version":0},"schema_version":1}