Abstract
Disclosed is a method for holding a memory shared by several members of one organisation such that conflicting statements are kept both, attributed, and marked contested rather than merged into one clean truth, and such that a single member's erasure removes that member's contributions without destroying a co-author's. The disclosure pins five obligations (provenance as a many-to-many edge rather than a column; attribution keyed on the chain-stable identity of a claim so that versioning does not sever co-authorship; corroboration yielding one record with two edges rather than a duplicate; granular per-contributor erasure with the record's standing re-derived from surviving edges; and an explicit system marker for unattributed background contributions) and describes the enabling arrangement. Disclosed as a non-obvious failure mode is the distinction between supporting and opposing contributions in erasure: treating an opposing contribution as if it constituted co-authorship keeps a record alive after the only member who ever asserted it has been erased.
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Recommended Citation
Bering, Alexander, "Contradiction-Preserving Attributed Organisational Memory with Per-Contribution Erasure", Technical Disclosure Commons, ()
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/11255