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  "title": "The Provenance Internet: Rediscovery, Artifact Trails, and Recoverable Social Objects",
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  "abstract_extracted": "The Provenance Internet proposes a shift away from feed-based social systems toward rediscovery-oriented interaction systems centered around artifacts, trails, buried objects, and recoverable social memory. In feed-based internet systems, value is primarily attached to novelty, immediacy, and visibility. AI-generated media accelerates this process by making content production nearly infinite. The Provenance Internet reframes value around provenance rather than publication. The central question becomes: “Where did this come from, who carried it, how did it survive, and why does it continue to reappear?” Core Principle Artifact → Bury → Dig → Rebury → Trail The provenance model treats internet objects as persistent recoverable entities rather than disposable feed units. Canonical Vocabulary • Artifact — A recoverable social object with contextual history. • Provenance — The history and rediscovery path of an object. • Digging — Searching for buried or hidden artifacts. • Re-Dug — An artifact rediscovered by another user. • Trail — The movement history of an object. • Deep Dug — A long-",
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  "full_text": "=== PDF PAGE 1 ===\nThe Provenance Internet\n\nRediscovery, Artifact Trails, and Recoverable Social Objects\n\nDOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20196025\nStatus: Conceptual proposal for provenance-based social interaction systems.\nRelated Systems: OldDug, The Brown Web, Brown Hyperlinks / Burylinks.\n\nAbstract\n\nThe Provenance Internet proposes a shift away from feed-based social systems toward rediscovery-oriented\ninteraction systems centered around artifacts, trails, buried objects, and recoverable social memory. In feed-based\ninternet systems, value is primarily attached to novelty, immediacy, and visibility. AI-generated media accelerates this\nprocess by making content production nearly infinite. The Provenance Internet reframes value around provenance\nrather than publication. The central question becomes: “Where did this come from, who carried it, how did it survive,\nand why does it continue to reappear?”\n\nCore Principle\n\nArtifact → Bury → Dig → Rebury → Trail The provenance model treats internet objects as persistent recoverable\nentities rather than disposable feed units.\n\nCanonical Vocabulary\n\n• Artifact — A recoverable social object with contextual history.\n• Provenance — The history and rediscovery path of an object.\n• Digging — Searching for buried or hidden artifacts.\n• Re-Dug — An artifact rediscovered by another user.\n• Trail — The movement history of an object.\n• Deep Dug — A long-buried rediscovered artifact.\n• Fresh Dug — A newly discovered artifact.\n• Brown Hyperlink / Burylink — A recoverable hyperlink requiring excavation before reveal.\n\nFeed Internet\nProvenance Internet\n\nScrolling\nDigging\n\nPost\nArtifact\n\nTimeline\nTrail\n\nImmediate exposure\nRecoverable discovery\n\nNovelty\nRediscovery\n\nDisposable content\nPersistent objects\n\nOldDug\n\nOldDug is proposed as a provenance-native social runtime centered around rediscovery, artifact sediment, buried\nsocial objects, and recoverable internet memory. The platform introduces a social grammar centered around terms\nsuch as: OldDug, dug, re-dug, deep dug, fresh dug, artifact trails, and buried objects.\n\n=== PDF PAGE 2 ===\nAI and Provenance\n\nAI-generated content increases the importance of provenance systems. When generation becomes abundant, social\nvalue shifts away from raw creation toward rediscovery, contextual history, rarity, trail formation, and human carrying.\n\nConclusion\n\nThe Provenance Internet reframes internet interaction from publication toward rediscovery. “The web had surfing. It\nnever had digging.”"
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