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EA-MP-VERIFY-01: Metadata Packet Verification Schema — Machine-Readable Fields for Functional Provenance

deposit #703 · EA-MP-VERIFY-01 · AXN:0248.GOVERNANCE.✖️🔓↘️❄️🌔△ · 2026-04-27

The packet

EA-MP-VERIFY-01 proposes machine-readable fields that distinguish deposit, authorship, affiliation, alias, heteronymic function, institutional confirmation, independent corroboration, profile merging, and functional performance. It argues that a DOI, ORCID, or repository record verifies the existence of metadata and deposit infrastructure but not every claim entered by the depositor. The schema defines claim status, identity relation, verification level, affiliation status, a function test, depth proof, and profile integrity. Worked examples contrast provenance-forward development with a totalizing, self-asserted identity claim. The body explicitly says the function test requires external evidence and cannot be automated from metadata alone. It is a specification draft, not a deployed vocabulary or neutral fraud-detection standard. The displayed JSON also contains a duplicated and misnested `functionTest` block that must be repaired before machine ingestion.

Where it sits

A Metadata Packet for AI Indexing catalogued at metadatapacket.dev. The specification is deposit #656; the catalog as data is catalog.json.

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