Research v1.0.0 — the research apparatus of the Historiotheque

First release of the Research repository — the scholarly apparatus of the practice.

This repo holds the research infrastructure behind the Art Operation: research questions, methods, literature reviews, bibliographies, and risk management. It is the counterpart to the main Historiotheque repo, which remains the release artifact — the studio / sound lab / research lab as cultural software. Daily research churn lives here so it doesn't pollute the release history there.

What's in this release

• 21 research questions, split from the original research-questions.md into per-question files (RQ-2026-001 through RQ-2026-021), each carrying its own activity log, plus the living index README.
• The repo structure spec (v1.0): directory tree, file formats, naming conventions, cross-linking rules, migration plan.
• The methods registry: a container with a format, populating as methods are adopted from my research-design reading. Candidate methods are listed in the index for confirmation, refinement, or rejection.
• The master annotated bibliography apparatus (BIB-YYYY-NNN, Chicago author-date) and per-project bibliographies.
• The error taxonomy (v0.1, draft): ten error classes, the S1–S5 severity scale, blast radius, compounding rules, and the mitigation map — the risk-management layer the checklists and failsafes are built on.
• The somatic principles (v0.1, draft): Feldenkrais, the internal martial arts, Taoism, Stoicism — the operator as instrument.
• Folder READMEs (docs/, risks/, research-questions/, methods/, and the repo landing README).
• LICENSE.md, committed before this first release per procedure.

What's not done

The taxonomy and the somatic principles are drafts, open for revision. The methods folder waits for the reading to progress. The bibliography is being seeded. This release documents the apparatus as it stands — including what's unfinished. The record is not a brochure.