Collective-State Inference
Defines CSI and its qualification requirements.
CSI Reference governance
Version History
A public record of substantive changes to the canonical, versioned documentation for Collective-State Inference.
Versioning policy
How changes are recorded
Major editions identify meaningful changes to the CSI construct system, qualification requirements, methods, or research status. Minor article versions identify substantive clarifications within an edition. Typographical and accessibility corrections may be deployed without changing an article version when they do not alter meaning.
The Editorial and Citation Policy governs source selection, claim classification, citation verification, corrections, and disclosure of generative-AI assistance.
Edition 0.1
Initial ten-article reference architecture
Release period: July 2026
Status: Foundational draft aligned to the current pre-submission theoretical manuscript; not yet peer reviewed or empirically validated.
Collective State
Defines the latent, temporally situated property CSI estimates.
Collective
Defines the bounded social entity.
Emergence
Explains higher-level properties arising through interaction.
Composition Models
Specifies cross-level composition rules.
Observable Evidence
Defines construct-relevant empirical traces.
Validation
Defines validity, reliability, calibration, and baseline comparison.
Collective Awareness
Defines interpretation, explanation, projection, and responsible use.
Collective-Aware AI Systems
Defines accountable sociotechnical implementation.
Uncertainty in CSI
Defines uncertainty throughout the inferential chain.
Scholarly authority foundation
Policy and source registry established
Date: July 30, 2026
- Published the Editorial and Citation Policy.
- Published the Scholarly Sources registry.
- Added automated authority-page validation.
Claim-level citation audit
RA-001 through RA-010 advanced to Version 0.2
Date: July 30, 2026
- Added claim-level citations and direct registry links.
- Added claim-status language distinguishing scholarship from CSI propositions.
- Removed manuscript-only bibliographic deferrals.
- Preserved canonical definitions.
- Extended automated validation across all ten articles.
Scholarly publication readiness
Research provenance, machine-readable metadata, and citation exports added
Date: July 30, 2026
- Published the About the CSI Research Program page.
- Added
ScholarlyArticlestructured data and Highwire-style citation metadata for RA-001 through RA-010. - Added downloadable BibTeX and RIS citation records to every Reference article.
- Added
ResearchProjectstructured data to the provenance page.
Citation verification audit
Registry metadata and principal claim uses independently checked
Date: July 30, 2026
- Reviewed all 17 registry records against DOI registration or publisher metadata.
- Confirmed canonical DOI forms and found no DOI mismatch.
- Reviewed principal source-to-claim uses across RA-001 through RA-010 for scope and provenance.
- Published the Citation Verification Audit.
Archival and external-review readiness
Edition 0.1 prepared as a durable scholarly release
Date: July 30, 2026
- Published the Edition 0.1 Archival Release specification and fixed inventory.
- Added a deterministic release builder that produces a package manifest and SHA-256 checksums from the tagged source commit.
- Added repository-level
CITATION.cffmetadata for the archival package. - Published the Reuse and Licensing statement without prematurely assigning an open license.
- Published the Scholarly Feedback and Corrections workflow.
- Prepared the package for a future GitHub Release and DOI-minting archival deposit; no DOI has yet been assigned.
No canonical definition or research-status claim changed during this phase.