Timeline
TL-008
The Archive Starts Recording Its Own Shape
Entries about the record itself
Event Type
Record
The archive began keeping entries about how it is built, on the same terms as entries about what it holds — corrections beside originals, no quiet edits.
Historical Context
Until this point the structure lived in working notes that only the people building it could read.
Impact
The rules that govern the record are now themselves part of the record, which means they can be shown to have changed.
An archive that cannot describe its own construction is asking to be taken on trust.
Event Details
- Began
- With the categories that already existed
- Rule
- Same as every other entry: corrections beside, never over
- Audience
- Whoever holds this next