Evidence Types
Defines recognized evidence categories, including primary sources, secondary sources, institutional records, self-attestations, cryptographic records, metadata, screenshots, archives, media, receipts, and witness statements.
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Satoshium Evidence Standard
The Satoshium Evidence Standard defines how evidence is recognized, evaluated, preserved, and used across the Satoshium Suite.
Evidence is the foundation of certification, attestation, preservation, registry records, discovery results, and public verification. The standard exists so claims can be reviewed through records rather than accepted by assertion.
Evidence Quality
Defines how evidence is ranked by authority, independence, completeness, authenticity, timeliness, reproducibility, traceability, and resistance to alteration or misinterpretation.
CoreEvidence Requirements
Defines the minimum and recommended evidence expectations used during certification review, including required evidence, supporting evidence, disallowed evidence, and chain-of-custody concerns.
MethodologyEvidence Integrity
Defines how evidence should be preserved, referenced, hashed, time-associated, versioned, or linked to supporting records so later review can confirm what was evaluated.
PreservationEvidence Sufficiency
Defines when evidence is sufficient to support a determination, when additional evidence is required, and when available evidence is inadequate for certification or attestation.
ReviewEvidence Limitations
Defines how uncertainty, incomplete records, conflicting sources, stale evidence, unverifiable materials, and unsupported claims should be disclosed rather than hidden.
TransparencySuite Tool Use
Describes how Certifier evaluates certification evidence; Anchor preserves integrity context for defined representations; Attestor assesses eligible governed inputs through Rule-Constrained Evaluation before issuing bounded conclusions; Registry registers source-controlled records and their references; Beacon discovers evidence-linked information; and Navigator orchestrates workflows without assuming another institution's authority.
InteroperabilityEvidence Record Structure
Defines the basic fields needed to describe evidence consistently, including source, type, authority, date, relationship to claim, preservation status, review notes, and public reference.
SchemaStandard Role
The Evidence Standard establishes shared evidence-handling and assessment expectations. Whether a claim is supported, contradicted, unverifiable, or retained only as context is determined through the applicable institution's governed criteria, methodology, evidence, and decision process.
Without evidence, certification becomes assertion. With evidence, certification becomes reviewable truth-work.