Semantic Fidelity Lexicon
Semantic Fidelity concerns whether meaning, intent, context, and consequential relationships survive as information is transformed and reused. A representation can remain fluent, accurate, and coherent while losing the conditions that made its original meaning valid.
The Semantic Fidelity Project examines how these losses develop, why they can remain difficult to detect, and what allows representations to remain open to correction.
Semantic Fidelity Project Lexicon (PDF)
A working vocabulary for identifying and distinguishing the conditions, mechanisms, and failure modes associated with semantic degradation. Organized around foundational concepts, representation, retrieval, memory, optimization, and evaluation, the lexicon provides definitions, structural patterns, and conceptual distinctions for examining how meaning changes.
Preserving Meaning Across Systems (PDF)
A Reality Drift design brief exploring how retrieval, provenance, interpretation, memory, interoperability, and evaluation might support a shared capacity to preserve meaning and carry correction into downstream decisions. It introduces the proposed semantic integrity layer as a way to connect these responsibilities.