# NARRATOLOGIUM FULL SPECIFICATION & COMPUTATIONAL ONTOLOGY
> https://narratologium.com
> Thesis: "Events happen. Narratives decide what they mean."
> Question: "How do complex systems become intelligible to human beings?"

## The Quad-Layer Epistemic Framework
- 1. Meaning Layer: Creative Writing & Nonfiction (narrative architecture, sensory immersion, the ladder of abstraction, truth-constrained sensemaking).
- 2. Human Layer: Communication & Rhetoric (audience cognition, qualitative synthesis, persuasive reasoning, diagnosing intention-outcome divergence).
- 3. Formal Systems Layer: Computer Science (ontological graphs, deterministic state spaces, reverse-engineering mechanical interactions).
- 4. Empirical Layer: Natural Reality (immutable timestamps, physical invariants, verified archival records).

## Ontological Schema (27 Nodes, 20 Edge Types)

### Node Types
- Narrative: A structured temporal representation of connected events communicated by a voice to an audience.
- Work: The published or recorded creative, journalistic, or legal artifact (novel, play, speech, treaty).
- Narrator: The entity or consciousness actively uttering or transmitting the discourse.
- Character: An intra-diegetic agent possessing traits, agency, and relationships within the fictional world.
- Actor: A historical, real-world human or institutional entity in primary records.
- Event: The underlying physical occurrence, timestamp, or incident independent of narration.
- Scene: A discrete dramatic segment rendered in continuous real-time dialogue and action.
- Setting: The geographic, cultural, and environmental matrix framing the action.
- Plot: The causal sequencing and tension architecture of events (Syuzhet).
- Motif: A recurring thematic image, structural device, or narrative element across traditions.
- Theme: The abstract philosophical proposition explored by the work.
- Frame: The conceptual boundary that selects certain aspects of perceived reality and makes them more salient.
- Metaphor: A cognitive cross-domain mapping understanding source domain in terms of target domain.
- Archetype: A recurring character function or quest pattern grounded in comparative myth.
- Role: A functional slot occupied by an agent in a specific dramatic or legal structure.
- Perspective: The perceptual vantage point through which events are focalized.
- Claim: A propositional assertion made within a discourse.
- Conflict: The oppositional tension driving dramatic or rhetorical energy.
- Resolution: The terminal closure state of a plot or debate.
- Audience: The intended or actual recipient consciousness of the narrative discourse.
- Medium: The physical or technological substrate carrying the message.
- Genre: The conventional taxonomic family governing reader expectations.
- Adaptation: The cross-medium transmutation of a source narrative into a new medium.
- Memory: The cognitive retention and constructive re-narration of past experience.
- Oral History: First-person recorded spoken testimony captured by field ethnographers.
- Theory: A formal conceptual system for modeling narrative architecture.
- Scholar: An academic theorist who proposed formal models of narrative.

### Core Epistemic Relationship
- NARRATIVE_OF: Connects several radically divergent subjective/institutional narratives to the identical underlying physical event.

### Formal Mathematical Models
- Information(Narrated) = PerceptualField(Focalizer) ∩ DiegeticUniverse
- Syuzhet = Permutation(Fabula) + StylisticDeformation
- AnachronyDelta = |t_discourse - t_story|
- SensemakingMeaning = Sequence(ArchivalFacts) * Altitude(Ladder) * (1 - Omission)
- IntentionOutcomeGap = ||Vector(IntendedEffect) - Vector(AudienceInterpretation)||

## Interactive Laboratory Directory (21 Total)
1. /genome — The Story Genome (computational mesh autopsy)
2. /diff — The Narrative Diff (side-by-side event transformation)
3. /sensemaking — The Sensemaking Engine (truth-constrained nonfiction curation)
4. /makers-eye — The Maker's Eye Lab (reverse-engineering craft into UI/UX wireframes)
5. /workshop-engine — The Workshop Diagnostic Engine (cybernetic feedback & gap analysis)
6. /motifs — Motif Migration Engine (lineage vs resemblance tracking)
7. /frame-engine — Historical Frame Engine (Chronicling America newspaper timelines)
8. /memory-lab — Public Memory Lab (American Folklife Center oral histories vs official records)
9. /political-machine — Political Story Machine (GovInfo agency parser & metaphorical wars)
10. /metaphors — The Metaphor Atlas (Lakoff & Johnson Conceptual Metaphor Theory)
11. /character-network — Character Networks (social graph time scrubber)
12. /perspective-lab — Perspective & Focalization Lab (4-focalizer visibility matrices)
13. /narrative-clock — The Narrative Clock (histoire vs récit anachrony visualizer)
14. /openings — The Opening Lab (1,000 incipits taxonomy)
15. /endings — The Ending Lab (structural closure mechanics)
16. /archetypes — The Archetype Graph (Campbell/Propp/Frye & Ludologium crossovers)
17. /adaptations — Cross-Medium Adaptation Graph (Alice in Wonderland matrix)
18. /official-story — The Official Story (NARA record vs narrative)
19. /word-stories — The Story of a Word (narrative etymology)
20. /scholarship — Narrative Scholarship (OpenAlex theory graph)
21. /source-ledger — Epistemic Source Ledger (6 provenance tiers & 7 machine corpora)