CL-09 / Archives / proposed
A small archive you can reopen
What is the simplest durable record of a research experiment?
01 / One week
Make the smallest useful proof.
Package one synthetic experiment as README, open-format data, assets and checksums. Ask a second person to follow it on a clean folder.
02 / Four weeks
Stretch the experiment.
Add versioned manifests, consent/license fields and a migration checklist.
03 / Materials
Start with what is available.
- $0–30; existing storage
- Skills to practise: Documentation, file organization, basic scripting
Illustrative materials only. Equipment purchases, expenses and access need human review.
04 / Privacy + boundaries
Choose a safe test fixture.
No proprietary work, participant identities or unlicensed media. State retention and deletion limits before real archiving.
05 / Success
Measure the change.
A second person locates evidence and reproduces the sample result without author help
06 / Deliverable + review
Leave a usable handoff.
Portable archive, manifest schema and recovery report
Human review: Mentor approves licensing and retention. Human approval is required before archiving real personal or third-party records.
Before work enters the world.
- Pay, hours, eligibility, supervisor, location, agreements and legal review must be resolved before recruitment or work begins. Budgets are illustrative materials estimates in USD, exclude labor, tax and shipping, and are not spending authorization.
- Use synthetic or licensed public fixtures first. A human supervisor must approve any participant involvement, consent, collection and data lifecycle.
- Agents may draft, code, propose tests and document evidence. They cannot supervise interns, approve their own work or infer authority to send messages, buy materials or publish.
- PointCast publication is the programme’s intended context. Physical venues, partners and installations need separate confirmation; no external venue partnership is claimed.
- Credit every contributor with permission. Publish measured results and limitations only after human review; preserve a record of corrections.