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Identity journey 6 of 6 · A paper, a dataset, a fieldnote, and a concept

A knowledge artifact

How is a persistent identity useful for a paper, dataset, fieldnote, or model — and how does the artifact refer to the world?

Documents and concepts are referents too, with revisions, representations, and citations of their own. This is the DOI-like part of RSM ID — one peer among the journeys, not the model for all of them.

What this journey shows

  • Revision, representation, citation, and stewardship for documents and datasets.
  • Artifacts refer to the world: a dataset is about Soil Probe 17; a paper makes claims about Cedar Creek.
  • A document’s existence does not establish that what it reports occurred.

What it does not imply

  • That every identity is represented by a document.
  • That document revision rules apply to people, organisms, or material transfers.
  • That RSM ID is primarily a document identifier.

Steps

  1. Reel

    The Journey of a Research Artifact

    A guided sequence in eight frames following one research paper — from registration and naming through resolution and revision — the specialized knowledge-artifact journey, one of six. For the Learning Center's entry experience, start with The Journey of an RSM Ecosystem.

    For everyone · Document 08 v1.1 — Section 2.0 and 4 more

  2. Viewgraph

    The Journey of a Research Artifact

    Follow one illustrative paper from registration to resolution and revision, and see which parts change and which never do. Documents are one family of referents among many; for the whole ecosystem, start with The Journey of an RSM Ecosystem. The source deck for the research-artifact Reel.

    For everyone · Document 08 v1.1 — Section 2.1 and 7 more

  3. Journal

    From Identity to Federation

    A watershed council, a county water office, and a farming cooperative each keep their own knowledge about Cedar Creek, North Field, a soil sensor, and a water formation. This Journal follows their assertions — including where they disagree — to show how shared identity, provenance, and permissions let knowledge connect across organizations without anyone surrendering control of it, and then revisits the original paper-and-concept chain as a specialized case.

    Technical · Document 08 v1.1 — Section 4.4 and 20 more

  4. Fieldnote

    Why resolution is not simply fetching a document

    Why RSM ID resolution verifies authority, evaluates lifecycle and disclosure, and negotiates a representation instead of following a link to a file — and why a private person, a public watershed, a retired machine, and a restricted formation each resolve differently.

    Technical · Document 08 v1.1 — Section 6.1 and 8 more

  5. Fieldnote

    Why a Semantic Space has both an RID and an RSN

    Why each Semantic Space carries a registered name and a separate permanent identifier, what goes wrong when either is mistaken for the other or for the server, and why a space's identity is infrastructure identity that no person or place depends on.

    Technical · Document 08 v1.1 — Section 1.4 and 7 more

  6. Journal

    The Anatomy of RSM ID

    RSM ID is not one identifier but a system of seven cooperating parts. This Journal takes them apart one by one — RID, RRN, RSN, Identity Record, the four registries, issuance authority, and resolution under the v1.1 HTTP profile — following a person, a watershed, a sensor, and a formation through each, with a document as one case among them.

    Technical · Document 08 v1.1 — Section 2.0 and 25 more

All journeys and pathwaysRelated pathway: D, FederationNext journey: A person