Research profile

Decision Source of Record (DSR)

A durable, reviewable record connecting a decision to its rules, evidence, rationale, and disposition.

Decision evidence

A durable, reviewable record connecting a decision to its rules, evidence, rationale, and disposition.

Decision Source of Record research investigates how organizational decisions can become inspectable institutional memory. A record connects the context of a case with applicable policy, the evidence considered, the decision authority, the disposition, and routes for review or appeal. The goal is to preserve the basis for a decision so later systems and people can challenge, compare, and reuse it within the right scope. A case record remains distinct from a general rule: turning an earlier decision into reusable precedent requires additional review.

The research question

Can structured decision records improve audit, review, and scoped reuse without turning historical decisions into unquestioned authority?

Research workstreams

A question. A method. A test.

Workstream 01

Decision schemas linking context, evidence, policy, and authority

Workstream 02

Review, dissent, appeal, remediation, and closure

Workstream 03

Scoped retrieval and promotion from cases to precedent

Evidence priorities

Make progress measurable.

The initiative is framed around testable questions. Its research direction should be assessed against observed evidence and the limits of each experiment.

Completeness of context, policy, evidence, and decision authority
Ability to review, challenge, and reverse a recorded decision
Appropriate scope when retrieving or reusing a previous case

Research goals and proposed mechanisms are not established findings. Product-linked tracks describe the research behind a capability, rather than a claim that its hypotheses have been validated.

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