Thesis
From documents to entities. From publishing to maintenance.
The web we inherited is a web of documents. A page is written, published, linked and crawled. Search, SEO, directories and content marketing all assume the document is the unit of information — and that a human will read it.
That assumption is beginning to strain. When someone asks a question and receives an answer instead of a list of links, the document stops being the destination and becomes raw material. What the answering system needed was never a page. It needed reliable facts about a thing.
Internet of Pages
Internet of Record
A record has state. State changes produce events.
Before
Business Record
Service = Residential Landscaping
Something changes
New service added
Commercial Snow Removal
↓ Record updated
↓ Change event emitted
Potential distribution
- Website
- Local feed
- Search
- Marketplace
- AI
- Applications
Records tell us what exists. Events tell us what changed.
- Record
- Structured Fact
- Source
- Evidence
- Provenance
- Freshness
- Citable Information
- AI · Search · Agents
From information to citable information
AI systems increasingly need information they can stand behind. That is a higher bar than being published. A claim has to be attached to a resolved entity, traceable to a source, current enough to repeat, and scoped to conditions.
- Structured
- Attributable
- Fresh
- Verifiable
- Entity-resolved
- Citable
- Permission-aware
Being online may no longer be enough. Information may need to be understandable, verifiable and citable.