Status values

Stable

Four vocabularies, one per entity kind. They are closed sets: a status outside its vocabulary fails validation. The badge component and the JSON Schemas both read from the same source, so a value that renders is a value that validates.

Projects

Value	Means
`idea`	Written down, not committed to
`planned`	Committed to, with a method, not started
`active`	Being worked on now
`paused`	Deliberately stopped, with a recorded reason and a restart condition
`complete`	Finished; results frozen
`archived`	Not finished and not resuming

Idea Planned Active Paused Complete Archived

Publications

Value	Means
`idea`	A paper is conceivable from this work
`outline`	Venue chosen, section plan written
`draft`	Being written
`internal-review`	With co-authors or advisor
`submitted`	Sent, not yet under review
`under-review`	With reviewers
`revision`	Revising against reviews
`accepted`	Accepted, not yet published
`published`	Out
`rejected`	Rejected; returns to `draft` for the next venue

Outline Draft Internal review Submitted Under review Revision Accepted Published Rejected

Experiments

Value	Means
`planned`	Designed, not runnable yet
`ready`	Configuration and environment fixed; can be run
`running`	Executing
`complete`	Executed, results recorded
`failed`	Did not execute correctly
`invalidated`	Executed, but the result cannot be trusted
`archived`	Superseded, kept for the record

Planned Ready Running Complete Failed Invalidated

failed and invalidated are different and both matter. A failed run tells you the setup is wrong; an invalidated run tells you a result you may already have cited is not trustworthy.

Thesis chapters

Value	Means
`not-started`	Nothing written
`outline`	Section structure fixed
`draft`	Prose exists for every section
`review`	With the advisor
`revision`	Being revised against comments
`complete`	Signed off

Not started Outline Draft Review Revision Complete

Page maturity

Pages that are not entities carry a maturity marker instead:

Stub, Draft, Active, Stable.

The rule that makes this useful

A status is a claim about the world, and it decays. A project marked active that has not been touched in three months is not active; it is paused and nobody said so. Statuses are reviewed monthly against the research map, which is why the map counts them.