Archive Taxonomy

This page defines the archive categories and status labels used to distinguish public orientation, essays, devotional works, source material, and canonical development.

Use categories to describe what a document is. Use status labels to describe how it currently functions in the project.

Archive Categories

Core Foundation

A document or page that establishes the project’s governing frame. Core foundation material should orient the whole archive toward diagnosis, faithful keeping, repentance, and re-embodiment in Christ.

Examples include Foundations, The Architecture of Apostasy, and Aru vaen: A Keeping of the Troth.

Major Essay

A public essay that carries a central theological, historical, institutional, or pastoral argument for the archive.

Major essays may be rhetorically intense. They should be read with the claim-type distinctions in Method and the reader notes in Essays.

Supporting Essay

A public essay that develops, tests, applies, or qualifies a major theme without serving as a primary foundation.

Supporting essays can be important without carrying the weight of the whole project.

Mythic-Devotional

A story-shaped, symbolic, poetic, or devotional work that forms imagination and posture rather than technical ontology.

Mythic-devotional material should not be flattened into rigid definitions, but it may discipline the tone and practice of the archive.

Image

A public image, gallery entry, image catalog record, or visual-theology artifact.

Images may be devotional, diagnostic, symbolic, illustrative, or experimental. The category identifies visual form, not final theological status.

Song

A lyric, song collection, or musical artifact used for devotional, poetic, or theological expression.

Songs belong to the public archive only when they serve the path rather than merely expanding the collection.

Discussion

A public discussion artifact, exchange, or conversation record that helps readers understand project development, questions, objections, or applications.

Discussions should be distinguished from polished essays and canonical grammar.

Raw Source

Original PDFs, drafts, OCR, prompts, notes, or other source material preserved under raw/.

Raw source material is preserved faithfully, but preservation is not publication and publication is not canonization.

Status Labels

Foundation

The item establishes or directly serves the project’s governing foundation.

Canonical Draft

The item belongs to canonical theological development but remains draft material requiring review, source discipline, and Christological resolution.

Public Essay

The item is a public reading copy intended for readers on the site.

Devotional/Mythic

The item forms imagination, posture, symbol, or devotion rather than making a primarily analytic argument.

Source Material

The item is preserved as source, evidence, draft substrate, OCR, or original input.

Working Note

The item records provisional thinking, process, planning, or development context.

Needs Citation

The item makes historical, theological, psychological, medical, institutional, or interpretive claims that need stronger visible sourcing.

Needs Review

The item needs human editorial, theological, pastoral, historical, or source review before it should be treated as stable.

How To Use Both

Pair one category with one or more status labels when indexing archive entries.

For example, an item may be a Major Essay with Public Essay and Needs Citation labels, or a Raw Source with Source Material and Needs Review labels.

Labels should clarify reader posture. They should not make weak work look settled, and they should not turn draft material into authority.