Why these records belong together
Durable AI and cultural systems need protocols for context, provenance, local execution, object presentation and operational accountability.
COLLECTION
Knowledge Hub Fourth Wave
Knowledge Hub Fourth Wave groups articles and technology records about MCP, C2PA, WebNN, IIIF and OpenTelemetry for durable AI and cultural infrastructure.
active
published
v1.0.0
EDITORIAL SIGNALS
Definitions, evidence and graph context.
This section exposes the structured editorial fields behind the record so readers, crawlers and retrieval systems can evaluate scope, sources and relationships.
Editorial inclusion logic
The collection prioritizes standards and protocols that can connect existing Electronic Artefacts themes to practical implementation surfaces.
Canonical records in this collection
Model Context Protocol and Tool-Using AI Systems
C2PA Content Credentials and Generative Media Provenance
WebNN and Local AI in the Browser
IIIF and Compound Cultural Objects
Observability for AI Agents and Tool-Calling Systems
Model Context Protocol
C2PA
WebNN
IIIF
OpenTelemetry
AI Agent
Provenance
Digital Preservation
Multimodal AI
Contextual Execution
Tags and disciplines
Knowledge HubFourth WaveAI ProtocolsProvenanceCultural InfrastructureArtificial IntelligenceKnowledge SystemsDigital PreservationSoftware Architecture
Thesis
The next layer of AI and cultural infrastructure is not only model capability. It is protocol design: context access, tool use, media provenance, local inference, object presentation and operational accountability.
Selection logic
This collection follows the AI and graph-runtime foundations by adding implementation-facing standards. MCP connects tools and context. C2PA connects media to provenance. WebNN brings local inference to the browser. IIIF structures compound cultural objects. OpenTelemetry makes runtime behavior observable.
Editorial role
The wave avoids product rankings. It focuses on stable concepts and standards that can support future Electronic Artefacts systems, especially VASTE, Vestiges, ORETH, Palimpsests and the Knowledge Hub.
Current members
The collection includes five long-form publications and five canonical technology records.
Internal pathways
AI readers can move from agents to MCP and observability. Archive readers can move from provenance to C2PA and IIIF. Web readers can move from multimodal AI to WebNN and local interaction design.
Future expansion
Future articles can add WebAssembly components, verifiable credentials, Solid data spaces, source entities, claim graphs and browser-based archive viewers.
Record metadata
How to cite this record
Knowledge Hub Fourth Wave. 1.0.0. Electronic Artefacts, 2026-06-24. https://electronicartefacts.com/archive/collections/knowledge-hub-fourth-wave/
TYPED RELATIONSHIPS
How this entity connects.
Each connection has an explicit predicate and a human-readable statement.
Model Context Protocol and Tool-Using AI Systems
Model Context Protocol and Tool-Using AI Systems is part of the fourth Knowledge Hub wave.
C2PA Content Credentials and Generative Media Provenance
C2PA Content Credentials and Generative Media Provenance is part of the fourth Knowledge Hub wave.
WebNN and Local AI in the Browser
WebNN and Local AI in the Browser is part of the fourth Knowledge Hub wave.
IIIF and Compound Cultural Objects
IIIF and Compound Cultural Objects is part of the fourth Knowledge Hub wave.
Observability for AI Agents and Tool-Calling Systems
Observability for AI Agents and Tool-Calling Systems is part of the fourth Knowledge Hub wave.
5 typed connections
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