Abstract
The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) gives the world a portable, vendor-neutral envelope for knowledge — markdown files with YAML frontmatter, cross-linked into a graph — and, by deliberate design, declines to specify how the knowledge inside that envelope should be organised, requiring only a single type field and defining the interoperability surface rather than the content model. The Layered Knowledge Profile (LKP) supplies the content model that OKF leaves open. It encodes, as machine-readable structure expressed entirely within OKF's own conventions, the asymmetric ontological dependency among the four realms of reality described by Alwis (2026), so that a body of knowledge can be checked for the one thing a semantically flat link-graph cannot detect: its own incompleteness. The profile's defining capability is the completeness check — the operationalisation of the paper's Mendeleev function — which, for any node, traces the chain of lower-realm dependencies a complete account must engage and flags the links that are absent. The profile is scale-invariant, instantiating the same four-layer architecture at the scale of reality, of the living being, and of the civilisational order; it carries a two-tier honesty about its own authority, investing confidence in the near-objective dependency structure while marking the more theory-laden civilisational sub-typing as contestable; and it is designed to ride OKF's distribution rather than to rival it. It is not, and does not claim to be, the true ontology of reality; following its source framework, it is an organising architecture whose value lies in revealing severed connections.
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Alwis, Harendra A. Mr., "The Layered Knowledge Profile", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/10543
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