Systems Atlas Project
Level 1
Scholarly communication structures
academic/scholarly-communication-structures
Justification
What has been written down.
Six fields are required of every node. Empty ones are shown as declared gaps — a gap means nothing has been written, not that there is nothing to write.
Definition
Infrastructure that disseminates and archives academic knowledge.
Inclusion
- journals, conferences, repositories, publishing platforms
Exclusion
- the underlying technology — goes to technological
Sources
Declared gap No sources have been cited.
Boundary cases
Declared gap No boundary cases have been recorded.
Uncertainty
Declared gap No uncertainty has been recorded.
Rules
Whether this division survives the six rules.
Rules 1, 5 and 6 are checked by the validator and reported here. Rules 2, 3 and 4 are judgements about meaning and cannot be automated — no state is claimed for them. The rules themselves are set out in the method.
At most seven
Not applicable. This node is not a division.
Mutually exclusive
A judgement about whether the parts overlap. Not automated.
Collectively exhaustive
A judgement about what the parts leave out. Not automated.
Equal abstraction
A judgement about whether the parts answer the same question type. Not automated.
Decomposable or terminal
No children and not marked terminal — unfinished, rather than an endpoint.
Justified in writing
3 of the six fields carry content. The rest are declared gaps.