A SciOS whitepaper
Resilient Data Futures
The SciOS Resilient Data Futures whitepaper argues that research data loss is architectural rather than operational — and that the accumulated loss carries roughly $1.1 billion per year in latent liability at a representative R1. The same architecture that hedges that liability also produces the infrastructure AI-ready data requires.
The form
We publish the argument as a discourse graph
Every claim, evidence item, question, method, and source is its own addressable node. You cite a claim by ID, contradict it with a counter-claim, or support it with a single new piece of evidence — without writing a paper around it. Narratives composed from the graph regenerate as new nodes accumulate.
349 nodes · 644 edges
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Engaging with a discourse graph
A discourse graph isn't read like a paper. There's no fixed reading order — readers choose where to enter and what to follow. See the structure at a glance, read the argument end-to-end, or open a single node and follow its edges from there. Each path covers the same set of claims, evidence, questions, methods, and sources. Over time, as the graph grows, the seams between papers begin to dissolve: a Claim, an Evidence item, a Method belongs to the graph of human discourse — becomes a part of whatever uses it — not to any single publication that happened to introduce it.
Topology
The whole graph at a glance — every node coloured by type, every edge by relation. Filter by type, section, or status; click any node to surface its bundle. The fastest way to see how the argument actually connects.
Narratives
The original whitepaper plus narratives composed from the graph — each a dated view of a specific bundle around a claim, a question, some evidence, generated by traversing the graph directly. Or generate your own from any anchor on demand.
Browse Nodes
Every node sits at its own URL — body, outbound edges, inbound backlinks, all computed at build time. Cite a single claim or piece of evidence the way you'd cite a paper, or open a discussion against any node by ID.