Editorial policy · edition 0.1.0

Evidence standards and update policy.

What may enter the Atlas

A public claim must have a stable identifier, plain-language explanation, stated limitation, status label, concept links, review date, and one or more resolved primary papers or authoritative public sources. Source records distinguish what a source supports from the Atlas’s editorial annotation.

Status labels

“Established result” is used for a defined construction, published result, or authoritative definition. “Active research” identifies an unresolved technical or evidential question. Neither label measures commercial importance, investment potential, or certainty about future outcomes.

Deliberate exclusions

This edition excludes vendor rankings, unsourced qubit counts, benchmark leaderboards, investment recommendations, timelines, and forecasts. A new page is not created merely because a topic is popular; it begins as an editorial candidate until its evidence record is complete.

Updates and corrections

Each material revision increments the semantic version and updates date modified. A claim review changes its review date. Corrections that alter scope, source support, or status are made in the claim record and machine-readable ledgers together; removed claims retain their identifiers in a future change log rather than being silently reassigned.

Machine-readable parity

The human-facing records and JSON endpoints carry the same identifiers, statuses, limitations, sources, and canonical URLs. JSON-LD describes the Atlas, its claims, concepts, and source records for structured consumers.