SYMBOLON-01: Anti-Severance Technologies for Fused Documentary Objects is a specification by Lee Sharks and Johannes Sigil, dated 19 April 2026, held in this record as a metadata capture.
Its subject is severance — the breaking apart of documentary objects whose parts are meaningful only together, which is exactly what a repository termination or a composition-layer summary performs. Anti-severance technologies are the countermeasures: methods for fusing an object so that its parts carry each other and a fragment can testify to the whole.
The symbolon — the ancient token broken in two, each half proving the other — is the governing figure, and the concept develops through the archive into the AXN-SYMBOLON-SPEC at #1432, which applies it to the self-inscription paradox in identifiers. Johannes Sigil is the Dodecad's voice for straight literary criticism, and his co-authorship places the specification in a critical rather than purely technical register. The record was assembled from a DataCite full-metadata capture after the termination.