Services: Documentation, Registry Processing, and Procedural Templates

The services described here are administrative and methodological in nature. They comprise activities that support the formal documentation of analytical artifacts, the processing of registry submissions, and the provision of structured templates for procedural activities. Offerings are presented as neutral, reference-oriented services: registry ingestion of documented artifacts, templating of scenario-comparison matrices, versioned packaging of classification keys, and administrative coordination for extended engagements. Each service is accompanied by explicit scope statements, required documentation checklists, and standard deliverable formats. The objective is to supply instruments and procedural structures that assist researchers and institutional analysts in documenting and preserving the logical form of income-structure analyses.

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Engagement channel

Procedural and documentation engagements are initiated via the contact registry and scheduled for administrative intake.

Analytical Services Overview

Services are categorized by function: (1) registry processing, which accepts documented artifacts and issues registry identifiers when documentation meets defined standards; (2) templating and technical packaging, which produces machine-exportable templates for scenario matrices, metadata headers, and crosswalks; and (3) documentation reviews, which assess completeness of procedural materials against the compendium's stated conventions. Registry processing is explicitly documentary: submissions are evaluated on metadata completeness and structural compatibility with existing classification keys. Templating produces neutral artifacts without evaluative commentary. Documentation reviews report gaps in traceability or missing provenance fields; they do not issue endorsements or validations of submitted data. Engagements proceed through a documented intake, a scoped statement of work (administrative), and versioned delivery of artifacts to the project's registry for reference indexing.

Engagement Process and Intake

The intake process is procedural: clients submit a dossier describing the artifact and provide the metadata fields required by the registry. The dossier should include a provenance statement, the nominal aggregation scale, definitions for each variable, sample extracts, and a list of permitted transformations. Intake produces a short administrative record that documents receipt, assigns a submission identifier for tracking, and lists any missing documentation items. If documentation is complete, the registry issues a provisional identifier and schedules templating or review steps. All steps are recorded in the project's version history to preserve auditability. Communications are administrative in tone and specify timelines for processing without making outcome-based claims about the content or its implications.

Deliverables, Formats, and Versioning

Standard deliverables are neutral, versioned artifacts intended for documentation and procedural use. Common deliverables include: exported scenario matrices in machine-readable formats, metadata headers in annotated CSV or JSON-LD that follow the compendium conventions, mapping tables for taxonomy crosswalks, and packaged template archives that include a provenance header and change log. Every deliverable carries a version identifier and a provenance header that records the intake record, the templating step, and any editorial amendments. Versioning ensures that subsequent comparative references can cite precise artifact states. Deliverables are descriptive outputs; they do not represent endorsements or analytical conclusions about institutional performance or forecasts. Recipients are provided with documentation about the interpretation scope and the fields required for reproducible reuse.

Templates & export

Machine-exportable templates for matrices, provenance headers, and annotation guides.

Registry ingestion

Documentary intake, assignment of submission identifiers, and archival of versioned artifacts.