Research notes and methods

Two related artifacts currently live here. J-Editorial defines a model for document state and editorial operations. The governance analysis is a small synthetic test bed for calculating and checking document-health signals from explicit inputs.

J-Editorial

How should a document system separate facts stored with an artifact from context-dependent judgments and the rules that act on them?

Intrinsic: Stable properties such as form, origin, audience, provenance, and explicit gaps.
Contextual: Calculated dimensions such as refinement, fitness, urgency, health, or usefulness for a particular audience.
Operational: Rules that turn state into review, routing, remediation, gates, and lifecycle actions.
Implementation: Parts of the model are operational in Doc Doctor; the framework remains under development.

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Governance analytics

How do document-health and audience-gate calculations behave when the inputs, formulas, assertions, and limits are kept together?

Fixture documents: 12
Average health: 0.811
Passing gate: 10/12
Blocking stubs: 3

Inputs: Refinement, audience gate, transient/persistent/blocking stub counts, and review state.
Outputs: Weighted stub penalty, health score, usefulness margin, and gate result.
Checks: Assertions cover identifier uniqueness, ranges, calculated totals, and regenerated output.
Boundary: All records are synthetic. The artifact contains no production-performance measurements.

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Relationship

The analytics artifact uses the same general separation J-Editorial argues for: stored document properties stay distinct from calculated state and from the rules that decide what happens next.