A self-referential disambiguation packet defining a **Metadata Packet for AI Indexing (MPAI)** as a DOI-anchored scholarly document for entity representation, retrieval architecture, and knowledge-graph alignment. It distinguishes that object from **packet metadata**, the routing and header information used in networking and security, and from scattered older technical uses of the exact phrase “metadata packet.” The packet’s self-reference is evidentiary: it is itself an MPAI object containing entity definitions, disambiguation matrices, canonical edges, test queries, and machine-readable structure. Its claim is not that every use of “metadata packet” belongs to MPAI, but that AI-indexing contexts need a stable entity distinct from adjacent infrastructure vocabularies.
Full packet — deposit #103 (canonical record) Plain text
A Metadata Packet for AI Indexing catalogued at metadatapacket.dev. The specification is deposit #656; the catalog as data is catalog.json.