• conforms_to::[[Gloss Form Contract]]
• authored_by::[[Deep Context Community]]
• has_lifecycle::[[Seed Stage]]
• has_curation::[[Working Draft]]
• in_domain::[[Deep Context Architecture]]

Deep Context Community

The collective identity under which nodes in the Deep Context graph are authored. On any node original to this graph — Decisions, Convictions, Contracts, Patterns, Predicates, Glosses, Observations, Aspirations — authored_by::[[Deep Context Community]] is the default attribution. Reference nodes carry the factual author of the external source they cite (an individual or organization outside this graph), not the Community.

The Community includes everyone who contributes to the practice and the graph. As of the seed stage, Christopher Allen is the current lead steward — the author of most seeded nodes, the namer of the practice, and the keeper of the Convictions' substrate. The collective-author framing is established now so that additional contributors arrive to a graph already open to plural authorship, not one centered on a single person. Forks are still the Community; collaborators invited into a fork are still the Community; the practice's integrity rests on the Convictions each contributor preserves rather than on who authored first.

The Community is not a legal entity, not a formal organization, and not tied to any specific tool. A fork running a different authoring stack remains part of the Community as long as its contributors preserve the practice's conventions and Convictions. The fork-and-edit-and-invite vision — someone forks the graph, runs their own Community, invites collaborators — depends on the Community identity being portable rather than proprietary. When a role system matures, authored_by::[[Deep Context Community]] can coexist with specific-role predicates (editor, steward, contributor, reviewer) on individual nodes; the collective identity is the default, not the ceiling.

Relations

• informed_by::[[Creating Shared Language and Shared Artifacts Post (Christopher Allen, 2009)]]

  • The 2009 post's framing of shared artifacts as the medium where collective meaning is negotiated. The Community is the collective; the graph is the shared artifact; author-declared edges are the vocabulary under which the collective meaning accrues.

• informed_by::[[CreativeWork Role Predicates Paper (Blockchain Commons, 2026)]]

  • Deferred substrate for the role system. The Community identity handles the collective-authorship default; specific-role predicates (author, editor, steward, contributor) are the later layer that the Blockchain Commons 14-role vocabulary would inform. MVA carries the collective identity without the role system.