Pathway D of 5
Federation
How do independently governed spaces share identity without sharing a database?
Semantic Spaces, Locus, Atlas, cross-space references, provenance, and why similar descriptions never merge identities on their own.
Steps
Journal
From Identity to Federation
A concept in the RSM space, a research paper in Wellzai, and a fieldnote in Musewoods reference each other without sharing a database. This Journal follows that chain through citation, exploration, transfer, and restriction to show how persistent references, provenance, and authority let federation work.
Seednote
Semantic Space
An independently governed logical knowledge environment, with its own RID and RSN.
Seednote
Locus
The proposed engine that serves authoritative resource knowledge for Semantic Spaces.
Seednote
Atlas
The proposed explorer of federated Semantic Spaces.
Seednote
Federation
Independently operated Semantic Spaces connected by shared identity and resolution.
Seednote
Provenance
The recorded origin and history of an identity, a name, or an assertion: who did what, under which authority, and when.
Viewgraph
Federation across Semantic Spaces
How RSM, Wellzai, and Musewoods are proposed to share identity without sharing storage: cross-space references by RID, Atlas traversal, and transfers that keep the RID.
Fieldnote
Why semantic equivalence is not identity equality
Why RSM ID never merges identities on similarity, sameAs claims, or shared source files — and what an authorized equivalence decision needs instead.