• conforms_to::[[Reference Form Contract]]
• serves_as::[[Deferred Role Vocabulary]]
• authored_by::[[Christopher Allen]]↗
• authored_by::[[Blockchain Commons]]↗
• has_lifecycle::[[Seed Stage]]
• has_curation::[[Working Draft]]
• in_domain::[[Deep Context Architecture]]

CreativeWork Role Predicates Paper (Blockchain Commons, 2026)

URL: https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/Research/blob/00fd2b1e24f8200e3f92a649e116960e7d723910/papers/bcr-2026-xxx-creativework-roles.md

A Blockchain Commons Research paper, dated 2026-02-02, specifying a vocabulary of fourteen role predicates for creative-work contributions. The fourteen include Author, Editor, Architect, Designer, Manager, Documenter, and others. The vocabulary is designed to operate across media types (text, code, audiovisual) and to stay agent-agnostic — each role applies equally whether the contributor is a human, an AI system, or a hybrid team. The paper aligns the vocabulary with existing standards (CRediT, ONIX, MARC) and specifies the predicates as registered terms in the Gordian Envelope system. The URL is pinned to a specific commit SHA; later revisions live on the paper's branch.

Adopted

Nothing directly adopted in MVA. The paper is deferred substrate.

Not adopted (yet)

• The 14-role vocabulary. Deep Context MVA uses a single collective authored_by::[[Deep Context Community]] with the lead steward named in the Community Gloss's prose. Specific-role predicates (for editor, steward, reviewer, contributor distinctions) are not yet load-bearing for the project's work; the simplification is deliberate.
• The CRediT / ONIX / MARC mappings. These alignment tables are useful when Deep Context needs to interoperate with publication and library traditions. No such interop is active in MVA.
• Gordian Envelope predicate registration. Deep Context's convention layer is plain markdown with author-declared edges; Envelope-registered predicates would be a later convergence move toward a cross-system registry.

Key moves to remember

• Cross-media applicability (one role vocabulary for text, code, audiovisual) avoids the balkanization that comes from separate role systems per medium.
• Agent-agnostic role definitions (a role is a contribution kind, not a contributor kind) matches Deep Context's stance that agents and humans are peers in the translation layer.
• Mapping to CRediT, ONIX, MARC is the translation-over-convergence move at the role-system layer: the vocabulary stays its own while making interop with neighboring systems explicit.

Relations

• informs::[[Deep Context Community]]
  • The Gloss that carries the project's MVA authorship model. The Community Gloss cites this paper as deferred substrate — the role system to draw on when specific-role predicates become warranted.