6529 Network Museum

This repository is the 6529 Network Museum's transitional system of record. It contains the Museum's governing sources, adopted decisions, approved donation collections, accession-program outcomes, accession register, record schemas, and on-chain design.

Each machine-readable release carries a deterministic manifest. These commitments prepare the record for content-addressed storage and an append-only on-chain history.

Public record and contribution

This repository is the Museum's shared record during the transition to an on-chain system. Anyone can read its sources and revision history, clone the repository, or propose a correction, new evidence, stronger scholarship, improved accessibility, or better technical and preservation documentation through a pull request.

Changes enter the published record after evidence review, deterministic validation, and maintainer approval. The process keeps each revision attributable and gives the network a direct way to improve the Museum. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md, or read The record outlives the interface.

The stated Fall 2026 goal is to give every admitted Museum record—from governance decisions and policies to accessions, provenance, rights, preservation events, and later corrections—an on-chain commitment and append-only lineage in a custom contract. Larger documents and media may remain on content-addressed storage. The website will present the collection from that durable record. Contract design is in progress; deployment and activation remain pending. See From public repository to on-chain Museum record.

Canonical areas

Area	Canonical location	Current state
Founding and policy	policies/	Institutional note plus adopted collecting and donation policy
Governance decisions	records/governance/decisions.json	Six adopted decisions and two participatory proposals with no adopted effect at the snapshot
Preapproved donation collections	records/collections/approved-collections.json	Autoglyphs, Art Blocks, original Rare Pepes, original CryptoPunks
Accession programs and selected art	records/programs/	Keys and Gates selection complete; acquisition/accession verification pending
Proposed gifts	records/proposed-gifts/	Public Wave-native candidate packages; no collection status before later formal acceptance and accession
Donations and accession work	records/accessions/register.json	Casey REAS seven-work gift accepted and accessioned; post-accession title, finalized-state custody, token-approval, and exact-address compliance diligence complete; autonomous software preservation remains active stewardship
Public scholarship	records/accessions/6529NM.2026.001/public/	Casey Reas artist monograph, seven-work collection and gift narratives, five project essays, seven object entries, and the supporting source-and-chronology matrix
Institutional practice	records/institutional-practice/	Digital-art-weighted comparative essay, twenty-seven primary-source profiles, a classified chain-native adjacent-practice study, detailed source notes, and deterministic citation inventory
Rights education	records/institutional-practice/rights-and-licenses.md	Public copyright introduction, artist and collector guides, all six CC 4.0 licenses, CC0, the Public Domain Mark, cultural-heritage rights statements, and practical Museum use
Rights registry and legal texts	docs/rights/	Machine-readable 22-term registry, seven exact Creative Commons legal-code snapshots, object assignments, source pins, fixity, and deterministic validation
Scholarship and editorial standard	docs/curatorial-publication-standard.md	Research substance, close looking, evidence, publication architecture, digital-art scholarship, and Museum prose style
Museum data architecture	docs/data-architecture.md	Plain-language and machine-readable profile for Spectrum, CIDOC CRM, LIDO, PREMIS, PROV-O, Getty vocabularies, IIIF, C2PA, BagIt, OCFL, and CAIP-19, with the Casey Reas implementation audit and exact seven-object machine schedule
Digital art stewardship	docs/digital-art-stewardship-standard.md	Work identity, components, artist documentation, manifestations, interventions, preservation packages, reproducibility, service exit, and public/restricted records
Accession standard	docs/accession-standard.md	Museum-rigorous, chain-native profile governed by the Museum data architecture
Proposed gift Wave standard	docs/proposed-gift-wave-standard.md	Public Storm dossier, decision language, minimum evidence, respectful closure, and accession handoff
Public Museum experience	docs/public-museum-experience-standard.md	Art-first replacement frontend standard, including media, scholarship, discovery, accessibility, and release acceptance
Program media delivery	docs/program-media-delivery.md	Deterministic responsive derivatives, source fixity, immutable CDN keys, high-resolution access, rights boundaries, and verification
Accession media delivery	records/accessions/6529NM.2026.002/public/presentation-manifest.json	Five Magnum source images and fifteen content-addressed 640/1280/2400 WebP delivery copies for credited Museum display; source originals, copyright, and no-reuse boundaries remain explicit
Open Museum	docs/open-museum.md	Public, group-editable repository phase and durable separation between record and display
On-chain transition	docs/onchain-transition.md	Visitor-facing Fall 2026 target, contract/content-addressed boundary, and explicit non-deployment status
Contributing	CONTRIBUTING.md	Public contribution paths, evidence expectations, correction rules, validation, and safety boundary
Rights map	RIGHTS.md	CC0 default for Museum-authored public material and explicit limits for artworks, media, evidence, and other third-party material
Stream interoperability	docs/stream-interoperability.md	Downstream envelope and contract compatibility; field-by-field ontology convergence follows the Museum profile
Future contract	docs/onchain-design.md	Requirements and migration boundary, not deployed code
Externally minted works	docs/external-works-registry.md	Token-agnostic registry design; no wrapping/reminting

Collection status

For chain-native objects, the Museum records each stage separately:

offered → authorized → acquired → received_onchain → accessioned → catalogued → technically_verified → preservation_complete → display_ready

For non-token and hybrid objects, the applicable off-chain receipt, title, and custody events replace received_onchain.

Wallet custody records receipt. A reviewed accession act is separate. A Wave WINNER records selection; minting, purchase, transfer, rights clearance, and accession each require their own evidence.

Integrity and validation

Local control-plane runs require Python 3.11 or newer. CI is pinned to Python 3.12.10.

The active required check is Museum validation; it runs the foundation bootstrap and full control-plane checks on every pull request and main push. Run the complete local control plane with:

python -m pip install -r requirements-dev.txt
python -m unittest discover -s tests -v
python scripts/bootstrap_validate.py
python scripts/build_proposed_gift_dossiers.py --check
python scripts/check_fetch_guard.py
python scripts/validate_rights_handbook.py
python scripts/sync_rights_legal_texts.py
python scripts/validate.py
python scripts/generate_institutional_source_inventory.py --check
python scripts/generate_program_media.py --check
python scripts/generate_accession_media.py --check
python scripts/migrate_public_entities.py --check --check-existing-review-state
python scripts/build_casey_diligence_manifest.py --check
python scripts/generate_manifest.py --check

The documentation-as-code control plane is specified in docs/control-plane.md. It validates JSON Schema, controlled vocabularies, Museum data-profile invariants, Stream envelope compatibility, canonical payload commitments, cross-references, append-only state transitions, constructor/reviewer separation, and public-record sensitive-field guardrails. The pull-request workflow runs these checks on every PR.

The generated release manifest covers the governed records, governance and review controls, protocol specifications, templates, validation source, tests, and named root control files. The exact closed inventory is documented in docs/control-plane.md. Evidence remains separately authenticated by raw-byte evidence manifests. Indexed WIP and research notes remain outside the release authority except for the published Casey Reas generative-system dossiers under notes/research/generative-systems/casey-reas/. The manifest uses deterministic content and hash conventions that also remain compatible with 6529Stream:

• repository-relative POSIX paths;
• sha256: file digests over LF-normalized Museum-authored text;
• raw-byte SHA-256 for explicitly binary authenticated evidence snapshots, with the byte mode recorded in their evidence manifest;
• RFC 8785-compatible canonical JSON under the repository's constrained I-JSON profile;
• Keccak-256 payload commitments;
• the Stream HashRef algorithm and canonicalization identifiers.

Raw evidence hashes and canonical record commitments are intentionally separate domains. A release manifest must identify the applicable byte mode; it must never silently normalize an authenticated source snapshot.

Public and restricted records

This repository contains public institutional records only. Never commit private donor contact details, non-public legal instruments, tax/appraisal material, Safe internals, hardware-wallet details, private storage locations, credentials, private keys, seed phrases, or non-public execution/signing payloads. Publicly issued upstream authenticity attestations may be retained verbatim as inert, content-addressed source evidence; they are never Museum signatures, signing authority, or executable instructions. Public records may contain a hash and a non-sensitive custodian reference to a restricted instrument.

Source priority

When sources conflict, use live chain state for ownership/custody facts, live Wave API status for proposal status, adopted proposal text for governance effect, the applicable Meme Card for program facts, then formal institutional/program notes. Chat is context, not hidden policy.