Status
Blocked by V-L1-A1. Open this only after V-L1-A1 resolves in favour of the concerns octad. If V-L1-A1 picks modalities, close this with a pointer to V-L1-A3 instead.
Context
If the concerns octad ({Data, Metadata, Provenance, Lineage, Constraints, AccessControl, Temporal, Simulation}) is canonical, the README still leads with a modalities table that the codebase no longer supports as the primary identity. Reframing is needed.
What to do
In README.adoc:
- Replace the "VeriSimDB's Octad: Eight Modalities" table with a table for the eight concerns. Map each to: purpose, sidecar table, code module, tier (Tier 1 for Provenance/Temporal; Tier 1 for AccessControl/Lineage/Constraints if the sidecar approach holds; Tier 2 for Simulation if it needs branching storage).
- Rework the "Eight categories of cross-modal drift" section. Either:
- move it under a "Drift detection" subsection that frames the eight categories as symptoms observed by the Constraints dimension when Data, Metadata, and the active overlays disagree; or
- shrink it to a single paragraph that defers to a future modality-overlay doc.
- In the "Tier 2: Augmentation Layer" section, retain modalities (graph, vector, tensor, semantic, document, spatial) but reframe them as overlay representations rather than as "the octad". A user enables an overlay because they want similarity search; this is independent of which concerns they enable.
- Update the "Architecture" ASCII diagram to label the sidecars by concern (provenance log, lineage graph, temporal versions, access policies, simulation branches) and the Tier 2 boxes by modality (graph, vector, …).
- Update
ROADMAP.adoc Phase 0 / Phase 1 to talk in concerns, not modalities.
Acceptance
Status
Blocked by V-L1-A1. Open this only after V-L1-A1 resolves in favour of the concerns octad. If V-L1-A1 picks modalities, close this with a pointer to V-L1-A3 instead.
Context
If the concerns octad ({Data, Metadata, Provenance, Lineage, Constraints, AccessControl, Temporal, Simulation}) is canonical, the README still leads with a modalities table that the codebase no longer supports as the primary identity. Reframing is needed.
What to do
In
README.adoc:ROADMAP.adocPhase 0 / Phase 1 to talk in concerns, not modalities.Acceptance
README.adoctable heading reads "Octad: Eight Concerns" (or similar)README.adocno longer claims modalities are "the octad"ROADMAP.adocis consistent with the chosen ontology