Publications

One research object. Many useful forms. No novelty by typography.

A durable research object can become a paper, essay, model or piece of software. Before any of those forms claim a contribution, the project should establish what the literature already knows and what, if anything, remains to add.

Lineage gate

No numbered paper without a prior-art position.

Each paper must say what it inherits before saying what it contributes.

The living novelty register classifies candidate contributions as established antecedent, independent rediscovery, synthesis, extension, application, operationalization, terminology candidate, novelty unassessed or, only after substantial search, candidate novelty.

Finding a close antecedent is a reason to improve the paper, not to hide the citation.

Inspect the Intellectual Lineage & Novelty Register →

Epistemic status

Publication is not certification.

A public artefact can be valuable before its curator can defend every part of it.

Working Paper 001 now cites close prior work on verification gaps, metacognition and claim accountability, and v0.4 further grounds its machine-discovery discussion in decades of computational-discovery, collective-discovery and scientific-priority scholarship.

Read Working Paper 001 · v0.4 →

Contribution & authority

Use standards before inventing roles.

CRediT for contribution. W3C PROV for provenance. RO-Crate for packaging.

Agalmic-specific metadata is reserved for claim-level epistemic authority, handoff, branch state, search boundaries and reversal conditions where mature standards do not adequately capture the research question.

Read the standards-first provenance profile ↗

Publication architecture

Record first. Search lineage. Refine continuously.

Working paper → peer-reviewed article → public essay → policy brief → talk → model → code.

These are projections of the same evolving research object. Stable versions should retain provenance, contribution roles, lineage status and corrections rather than presenting each release as an immaculate new beginning.

Initial sequence

The first paper family.

Current published objects draw identity and status from the semantic registry. Unpublished rows below remain a roadmap rather than being promoted into canonical research objects before they exist.

The Authorial Capacity Constraint

Exploratory synthesis / working paper

Working Paper 001 · v0.4

Agalmic Economics: The Displaced Scarcity Hypothesis

Foundational synthesis / hypothesis

Hold for formalization

Innovation Search Under AI

Literature-grounded extension

Hold for deeper lineage

Attention After Candidate Abundance

Economics of epistemic abundance

Research track

Markets for Possibility

Working paper

Research track

Representation as Discovery

Research paper + software

Novelty belongs in concrete formalism

Intellectual Property After Epistemic Abundance

Policy / economics paper

Research track

Draft notebook

Research directions before sequence.

Only actual draft objects are linked from the semantic registry. The remaining rows are deliberately kept as future research directions rather than pretending every possibility has already become a document.

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