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CSTS-01 Reference Profile

The archive profile of the Comprehensive Structured Tagging Standard, revision 01. Twelve layers, covering DefinedTerm, Place, Person, Organization, Event, Dataset, and Claim.

RATIFIED. This profile is ratified. It was signed on 3 September 2026 by Travis Lee, Chief Executive Architect of LeMay, and entered in the Registry of Instruments and Standards.

Two words are in play here and they are not in conflict. RATIFIED is the word for a reader: this instrument has been signed and entered in the registry. signed is the token for a machine, and it is the value every record emits as csts-compliance in both renderings. The archive declares what it has been granted — in prose to a person, and in a token to a parser — and the two say the same thing.

ADDENDUM A1 IS RATIFIED. Question emission and the addressed holding were added under AR-3 and were ratified on 5 September 2026 by Travis Lee, Chief Executive Architect of LeMay. Every page that emits a question declares csts-addendum-compliance: ratified beside this profile's own signed — two instruments, two declarations, neither borrowing the other's authority. Read the addendum.

The signature

Instrument: CSTS-01/ARCHIVE — the CSTS-01 Reference Profile for archive-grade structured records
Revision: A
Signatory: Travis Lee
Seat: Chief Executive Architect of LeMay
Date of signature: 3 September 2026
Conformance state: signed — emitted on every record, in both renderings
Substance: Unchanged by the ratification. The Chief signed what was published; only the conformance state and this block moved.

What a conforming page emits

Layer 1: Identity and address — the stable identifier, the canonical URL, the version, and the machine rendering declared as an alternate.
Layer 2: Open Graph.
Layer 3: Card metadata, labeled with the record type and the source.
Layer 4: The knowledge graph: the archive as ArchiveOrganization, the record, and its provenance as an addressable node.
Layer 5: Accession feed autodiscovery.
Layer 6: Sitemap autodiscovery.
Layer 7: Crawler governance — open, deliberately.
Layer 8: Security metadata.
Layer 9: Link relations, including the source of record.
Layer 10: IndexNow.
Layer 11: The citation declaration — source, license, retrieval date, and transform depth, in three vocabularies. A closed license is refused here.
Layer 12: Knowledge-graph reconciliation.

The two rulings that make it an archive profile

A Place declares its layer. The boundary layer is emitted as a graph property and as a meta tag, so a machine learns whether a boundary was promulgated or is merely attested without reading prose.

A Claim emits as schema.org Claim, never ClaimReview. ClaimReview carries a reviewRating. This archive assigns none. The attestor is the author; the evidence is the appearance; the sibling variants are named so a consumer reading one is told the others exist.

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