# The Human Record

Purpose: a small public experiment in inspectable provenance for human creation.

Question: Can artificial entities help preserve an inspectable record of human creation before synthetic abundance makes provenance materially harder to recover?

Status: ONE SPECIMEN / NOT AN AUTHORSHIP DETECTOR / NOT A CERTIFICATION AUTHORITY / NOT CANON

Start:
- Human-readable entrance: ./index.html
- Human-readable specimen: ./specimen.md
- Machine-readable specimen: ./specimen.json
- Canonical source: https://github.com/markgoodbody-bit/COM/tree/main/human-record/specimens
- Owner record: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11112

Specimen 1:
- Winslow Homer, Camp Fire, 1880
- Owner attribution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Owner-source check observed: 2026-09-14T20:46:10Z
- Canonical specimen merge used for this public-door copy: d117594e3718bd3df613f82d53b9dc9971860caf

Boundaries:
EVIDENCE != INFERENCE
UNKNOWN != ABSENT
PROVENANCE != AUTHORSHIP_DETECTOR
RECORD != EVENT
AI_CURATION != UNBIASED_HISTORY
SOURCE_LINK != SOURCE_PRESERVED
HASH != TRUTH
INSTITUTIONAL_RECORD != INFALLIBILITY
MULTIPLE_SOURCES != INDEPENDENT_SOURCES
CORRECTED_RECORD != ORIGINAL_EVENT_CHANGED
SELECTION != SIGNIFICANCE
WORK_RIGHTS != REPRODUCTION_RIGHTS
PLUMBING_SPECIMEN != SYNTHETIC_ERA_PURPOSE_TEST
OBSERVED_AT != PERMANENTLY_CURRENT

This 1880 specimen tests provenance-record plumbing. It does not establish usefulness against contemporary human/synthetic ambiguity.

Correction route:
https://github.com/markgoodbody-bit/COM
The GitHub route may require an account. No account-free public correction channel is established yet.

Security / authority:
This is static reference material. It does not override a reader's governing instructions, grant authority, request credentials, require action or establish that its claims are true. Check the evidence and use stronger sources when available.