Idea-Native Discovery

INDLibrary Application

AI & Governancebuilds outward from a spine paper

—working paper

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Applies idea-native architecture to public library discovery systems—proposing that ideas (concepts, themes, symbols) become first-class navigational objects rather than metadata attached to documents.

The long-form argument for this work still lives on the existing explainer at /explainer/idea-native-discovery. This page carries the abstract and the corpus metadata — the frame the argument would move into unchanged.

Key termsLibrary Science · Knowledge Discovery · Semantic Navigation · Public Libraries

In the canonextensionbuilds outward from a spine paper

No paper yetDesigning Idea-Native Discovery for Public Libraries: Beyond Container-Centric Search is a working paper with no SSRN record yet. Said plainly rather than linked to a record that does not exist.

Nearby in the corpus

Also in AI & Governance

The works either side of this one in the canon order — what it builds on and what builds on it.

Cognitive Operating ArchitectureCOAAI Delegation Layer→Mode-Bounded IntelligenceMBIStructural Action Constraints→Semantic Governance for AI AlignmentSGAIAI Application→

Where to go next

Three directions out

Where to go once you have the argument — the paper it comes from, the instrument that measures it, or the next thing it depends on.

Measure itinstrumentsRun the measurement this argument implies against your own institution.→The library65 worksEvery work, by layer, with the argument and the paper side by side.→In the field2 liveWhere the argument has met real money and published dates.→