Direct answer
Source Version, in this source contract, is limited to the following inspected scope. Persistent scholarly-object identity and explicit relationships among versions. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Source contract
Accept a source only after identity, version, locator, rights, claim scope, and boundary checks all pass.
Metadata or topical similarity alone cannot satisfy passage-level support.
Applied scope: Persistent scholarly-object identity and explicit relationships among versions.
Definition and operating context
The canonical concept owner is maha-research. This route may apply evidence; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
This property may publish research objects, machine-readable provenance, reproduction protocols. It must not publish sales copy or unsupported interpretation.
Evidence and exact locators
Versioning — Versioning: preprints, accepted manuscripts, versions of record, corrections, and retractions. Establishes: Persistent scholarly-object identity and explicit relationships among versions.
What the evidence does not establish
A version relationship does not prove that a source supports a claim or that two versions are substantively equivalent.
This route must not claim sales copy.
This route must not claim unsupported interpretation.
Related definitions and applications
graphEdges: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/source-identity/definition
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/source-version/definition
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/source-version/fixture
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/source-version/relationships
property-home: https://research.mahastrategies.com/
same-topic-application: https://research.mahastrategies.com/federation/research/source-version/method
Questions this page can answer
What does Source Version mean in this bounded context?
Source Version, in this source contract, is limited to the following inspected scope. Persistent scholarly-object identity and explicit relationships among versions. The answer carries the source boundaries forward and does not infer authority from a neighboring topic.
Which inspected sources support this source contract answer?
Versioning (living guidance inspected 2026-09-05), at Versioning: preprints, accepted manuscripts, versions of record, corrections, and retractions, supports persistent scholarly-object identity and explicit relationships among versions.
What does the evidence not establish?
A version relationship does not prove that a source supports a claim or that two versions are substantively equivalent. Property boundary: This route may apply evidence; it cannot redefine or inherit the authority of its canonical owner.
Which definition or canonical owner must be read first?
This page is the local maha-research definition for its topic. Related applications may depend on it but may not silently redefine it.
What source, policy, implementation, or release change would require revision?
Re-evaluate this page when a cited source, locator, governing instrument, local implementation, or canonical definition changes. Publication also requires a matching exact-revision review and active canonical release.