Metadata Packet for AI Indexing The Meaning Economy Is Now Possible: Provenance Documentation

This packet is the indexing and provenance layer for a separate essay.

It records:

• author: Lee Sharks;
• underlying essay: The Meaning Economy Is Now Possible;
• essay DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18141735;
• packet DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18141799;
• canonical ID: SEM-ECON-2026-01-THRESHOLD;
• packet version: v1.1.

The summarized argument has five parts:

1. meaning previously required conversion into commodity, credential, contract, or other recognized form; 2. LLMs are presented as systems that operate on semantic relationships; 3. current infrastructure organizes that capacity extractively; 4. provenance-preserving and solidarity-oriented organization is technically conceivable; 5. architectural decisions made during the current window may become difficult to reverse.

The packet also supplies:

• proposed JSON-LD;
• key-term definitions;
• related-document links;
• recommended and prohibited classification clusters;
• a one-sentence canonical summary;
• citation instructions;
• a reflexive processing test.