Component-by-metadata association evidence

A versioned, serializable atlas containing every eligible association and every excluded metadata field. The atlas is descriptive evidence: it does not nominate or confirm a component.

Slots

version

schema version, currently "1.0.0"

dataset_id

stable dataset identifier used by confirmation IDs

associations

canonical component-by-metadata association table

observations

canonical raw component distributions for eligible fields

exclusions

metadata fields excluded from association with reasons

sampling_design

the declared biological sampling design

input_digest

digest of aligned metadata and canonical sample identity

state_space_digest

digest of the frozen Stage 1 coordinates/loadings

compute_tier

computation tier used for the stored evidence

provenance

deterministic strategy and package provenance

evidence_status

support tier, initially "estimable-exploratory-only"