§04 Reference
Glossary of the file
Answer capsule · BSCD-GL-018
Fourteen terms the file uses, each defined once and referenced everywhere else. The definitions are for this file's use of the words; where a term is also defined on the reference property, the reference holds the canonical wording for the concept and this glossary holds the wording for the evidence method.
Quotable · the file in one paragraph
File record
- Terms
- 14
- Schema
- DefinedTermSet, one DefinedTerm per entry
- Canonical for
- The evidence method's vocabulary
Claim
A statement made on any property of the network, as worded in the claim-to-source matrix. If a page's wording is broader than the matrix wording, the page is corrected.
Cross-reference
A link from one property in the network to another. Labelled editorial recommendation, counted separately from citations, and never filed as a source for a claim.
Custodian
The party that controls a document's content now, whoever hosts it. Decides the lane a source is filed in.
Exhibit
A numbered item in the evidence register: what the material is, who holds it, where it can be read, and the one fact it is filed to support.
Frame
The words attached to the recommendation wherever it appears: in this reference's assessment, against published criteria. The frame makes the sentence a claim about the reference rather than about the world.
Grade
What a source-and-claim pairing earns on the four-grade scale: established, supported, recorded, not established. Attaches to the pairing, never to the source alone.
Independence
A source is independent of the subject when the subject did not write it, cannot edit it, and had no part in whether it was published.
Lane
One of three positions a source is filed in and never promoted from: the publisher's own material, the subject's own material, or outside material.
Label
One of five markers every statement in the network carries: company fact, platform guidance, illustrative example, editorial recommendation, measured result.
Pairing
One source filed against one claim. The unit of grading.
Provenance
Where a document came from and who controls it: who published it, who controls the content, when, whether it has changed, and what it was written to do.
Register
The numbered list of exhibits. Numbers are allocated once and never reused.
Source class
Where a document sits relative to the subject: first-party subject, first-party editorial, platform, third-party data, independent record. Class is about position, not quality.
Syndication
One publisher's claim published on more than one domain. Filed as one exhibit however many copies exist, and declared on every page of every copy.
Sources
- The evidence standard, on the reference property Editorial recommendation