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  "title": "The Witness Register: Co-Registration Without Aggregation",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.21754245",
  "doi_url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21754245",
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  "publication_date": "2026-08-02",
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    {
      "name": "Friedman, Daniel Ari",
      "affiliation": "Active Inference Institute",
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  "description": "A shared register that co-registers independent instruments' report envelopes without aggregating them. It stores each report's envelope verbatim, records cross-instrument relations as separate describing records, keeps history append-only and sealed, and — only when asked, for one declared next use — emits a bounded posture that always points back at the state that earned it. It never parses, compares, ranks, averages, or merges any instrument's native status. Subtitle: A shared register for line report envelopes that never ranks, merges, or overrides the instruments it holds Code is MIT licensed; prose and figures are CC BY 4.0. See LICENSE in the repository.",
  "keywords": [
    "co-registration",
    "append-only log",
    "provenance",
    "non-compensatory decision rules",
    "boundary objects",
    "research infrastructure",
    "open science"
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