About the lurabwefet archival specification
lurabwefet is an archival specification that records how budgeting entries are structured, indexed, and revised. The specification focuses on schema design, change provenance, and metadata conventions necessary for long-term interpretation of ledger-like documents. It treats budgeting entries as neutral records: items are described, identified, and cross-referenced without prescriptive instructions. The archive model separates identifiers from display labels so that renames and reclassifications can be recorded without losing historical linkage. The specification prescribes machine-parseable identifiers, ISO-compliant timestamps, and explicit pointers to original source documents. It also recommends a minimal set of semantic qualifiers that annotate entry characteristics such as recurrence, conditionality, or provisional status. The intention is to enable reproducible interpretation of archived records across toolchains and time horizons while preserving a clear lineage for every modification.
Scope and archival rationale
The scope of lurabwefet is archival description: it defines how budgeting entries are recorded for subsequent interpretation and audit. The specification enumerates mandatory and optional fields for an entry, including a stable identifier, a display label, one or more category codes, a timestamp of record creation, and revision pointers. It also sets conventions for boundary metadata that describe the applicability window of an allocation, including timezone annotation and reference identifiers for source documents. Archival rationale requires that operations which alter identifiers or labels maintain a mapping table that preserves historical references. The recording model treats exceptions as first-class elements: entries that fall outside defined boundaries must carry an exception annotation linking them to a revision entry that records rationale and provenance. Auditability is achieved through chained revision pointers and verification hashes computed over altered fields. The specification does not prescribe operational choices about allocation amounts or recommendations; it solely establishes a consistent descriptive framework for archival records so that subsequent readers and tools can reconstruct the state and lineage of each record reliably.
Metadata, identifiers, and hygiene
Identifiers follow a canonical pattern consisting of a prefix, a type marker, and a deterministic hash or sequence. Prefixes identify the namespace (for example, CAT for category, REC for record, REV for revision) while the type marker encodes structural meaning. Deterministic assignment rules ensure that the same semantic object maps consistently to the same identifier given the same input parameters. Metadata hygiene specifies required normalization steps for labels and free-text fields to avoid accidental duplicates: trimming whitespace, normalizing Unicode sequences, and applying controlled-vocabulary mappings where applicable. All timestamps are stored in ISO 8601 format with explicit timezone or UTC designation. Metadata includes source pointers that reference original documents by stable URL or document identifier, and audit fields that record the author key and verification digest for the recorded change. These conventions reduce ambiguity when reconciling records across systems and across time, and they support automated integrity checks without implying any procedural guidance about the budgeting content itself.
Index navigation
The archive exposes an index that supports search by identifier, label, and semantic qualifier. Index entries include revision history and link graphs for related categories.