Declared, Not Filled: Context You Can Audit
Jessica Talisman's essay splits the year's favourite buzzword in two: context as a container you fill, or context as a property you declare. ANSI/NISO Z39.19 has held the property view for a century — qualifiers, scope notes, warrant. ontoref reached the same record shape without ever citing the standard, then pushed it one step further: from declaring context on terms to declaring it on acts, where a signed witness answers 'on whose authority does this result exist?' with an exit code instead of fluency.
One Protocol, Multiple Subjects
Ontoref started as a protocol for software project self-knowledge. The same architecture — an ontological DAG for what IS, a reflection DAG for what BECOMES — applies without modification to infrastructure environments, to a body of authored work, and to individuals. The subject changes. The question is identical: what are you, what tensions define you, where are you versus where you intend to be?
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