Published schemes

Frozen vocabularies that sealed records cite by id.

A record says “my disclosure is written in this vocabulary”, or “my reason is drawn from this one” — and it can say nothing more. The meaning lives in the document, not in the record. So a reader has to be able to fetch the document and read it, forever. That is what this page is for.

These documents are immutable. A correction is a NEW VERSION (…-v2), never an edit. Old records go on pointing at the old file, and the old file never changes — because the alternative is that a record quietly comes to mean something it did not mean when it was sealed, with nothing on the record to show it.

The frozen set

songseal-ai-disclosure-v1 — frozen 2026-08-16

How an artist states what part AI played, in their own words, in a fixed vocabulary a reader can resolve years later.

songseal-ai-disclosure-v1 · sha256 d38c59f637a25765732e3e9b316a1dc65316b0d1db6c7c6391055d2b9d7a2486

songseal-correction-reasons-v1 — frozen 2026-08-18

The closed set of reasons a correction may give. Corrections are added to a record, never applied to it — both the original and the correction stay visible.

songseal-correction-reasons-v1 · sha256 82d3c249f1d773e70d737103f87744fa309af61f8ca6032821833d54209af1d9

Those digests are the freeze. They are also published as CHECKSUMS.json beside the documents, so the promise is something a build can check rather than something we assert. To check a document you were served here:

curl -O https://songseal.org/schemes/songseal-correction-reasons-v1.md
sha256sum songseal-correction-reasons-v1.md

Licence

The scheme documents publish under CC BY 4.0, the same as the rest of the record format. Quote them, cite them, translate them, put them in a filing.

The licence is stated HERE and not inside each document, and that is not an oversight. Every scheme file is checksum-frozen: adding a licence line to a published scheme would change its hash, break the freeze, and mean something different to every record that already cites it. A frozen document cannot be annotated after issue — which is the property that makes it worth citing, and the reason this note lives in a sibling page that is free to change.

New schemes published from 2026-08-18 onward may carry the licence line inline from the start. The ones already frozen cannot, and must not.

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