# NARRATOLOGIUM
> A computational atlas of narrative, framing, memory, and meaning.
> https://narratologium.com

## Thesis
"Events happen. Narratives decide what they mean. Narratologium does not ask whether a story is true. It asks how a story is built, how it changes, what it makes visible, what it leaves out, and what happens when people begin to believe it."

## The Quad-Layer Epistemic Framework
- 1. Meaning Layer: Creative Writing & Nonfiction (narrative architecture, sensory immersion, the ladder of abstraction, sensemaking under reality constraints).
- 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. Physical / Empirical Layer: Natural Reality (immutable chronological invariants, verifiable archival records).

## Corpora Backbone
- Project Gutenberg: ~79,300 machine-readable public-domain ebooks
- Library of Congress API: Digitized primary-source books, manuscripts, audio, and visual prints
- Chronicling America (NEH / LOC): 15.8M+ historical newspaper pages (1770–1963)
- American Folklife Center: 118+ hours of oral history and lived memory recordings
- National Archives (NARA): Tens of millions of declassified government records and commission reports
- GovInfo (GPO): Congressional Record (1873–present) and Presidential Documents (1993–present)
- OpenAlex: 320M+ scholarly works, author graphs, and citation networks

## Interactive Laboratories (21 Total)
1. /genome — The Story Genome (computational mesh autopsy of narrative voice, temporal architecture, and conflict vectors)
2. /diff — The Narrative Diff (side-by-side transformation analysis of identical events across competing accounts)
3. /sensemaking — The Sensemaking Engine (truth-constrained narrative: organizing raw facts without forging reality)
4. /makers-eye — The Maker's Eye Lab (reverse-engineering craft mechanisms: braided essays, Hayakawa ladders, hermeneutic gaps)
5. /workshop-engine — The Workshop Diagnostic Engine (cybernetic gap analyzer: intention vs. experienced outcome)
6. /motifs — Motif Migration Engine (lineage vs. resemblance tracking across millennia)
7. /frame-engine — Historical Frame Engine (newspaper headline evolution over time)
8. /memory-lab — Public Memory Lab (lived oral histories vs. official state records)
9. /political-machine — Political Story Machine (agency assignment and metaphorical war rhetoric)
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 (information visibility matrices)
13. /narrative-clock — The Narrative Clock (histoire vs. récit, anachrony visualizer)
14. /openings — The Opening Lab (incipit classification)
15. /endings — The Ending Lab (structural closure mechanics)
16. /archetypes — The Archetype Graph (theorist genealogy and game design crossovers)
17. /adaptations — Cross-Medium Adaptation Graph
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 — Complete Epistemic Source Ledger & Provenance Tiers

## Machine-Readable Resources
- Design Tokens (W3C DTCG Specification): https://narratologium.com/tokens.json
- Full Context & Epistemic Grammar: https://narratologium.com/llms-full.txt
- Sitemap & Static Routes: https://narratologium.com/sitemap.xml

## Sister Research Institutions (Temporal Architecture Federation)
- **The Chromologium** (`https://chromologium.com`): Computational color science, OKLCH perceptual color space, historical pigment chemistry, and material physics laboratory.
  - LLM endpoint: `https://chromologium.com/llms.txt`
  - Design Tokens: `https://chromologium.com/tokens.json`
  - Pigment Lab: `https://chromologium.com/lab/pigments`