Knowledge Hub Fourth Wave

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, operational accountability, governance and machine-readable trust.

Selection logic

This collection follows the AI and graph-runtime foundations by adding implementation-facing standards and operating practices. 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. AI search, governance, prompt-injection controls and verifiable credentials connect those protocols to public trust.

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 nine long-form publications and five canonical technology records.

Internal pathways

AI readers can move from agents to MCP, observability and prompt-injection boundaries. Archive readers can move from provenance to C2PA, IIIF and verifiable credentials. Web readers can move from multimodal AI to WebNN, local interaction design and knowledge graph SEO.

Future expansion

Future articles can add WebAssembly components, Solid data spaces, source entities, claim graphs, browser-based archive viewers and EU-facing implementation playbooks.