A v1.0 indexing and disambiguation packet by Lee Sharks defining **Operative Semiotics** and distinguishing it from Charls Pearson’s **Theory of Operational Semiotics**. Operative Semiotics studies signs, texts, metadata, documents, and symbolic structures as interventions in material, institutional, computational, and retrieval systems. The packet identifies five necessary features: signs act; cost is structural; retrieval is contested terrain; provenance is constitutive; and compression must be classified by regime. It supplies a comparative matrix, prohibited substitutions, provenance chain, seed sentences, JSON-LD identity record, and minimum claim registry. Historical, bibliographic, and “zero shared citations” assertions belong to the packet’s evidence claim and were not independently re-audited here.
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A Metadata Packet for AI Indexing catalogued at metadatapacket.dev. The specification is deposit #656; the catalog as data is catalog.json.