Provenance
- Question
- Who made the record, when and about which practice?
- What to record
- Note the source, context and version.
Practice notebooks · Totonacapan Institute
Researching how a capability is transmitted
The programme begins with a practical question: what needs to remain so that another person can learn and exercise knowledge with judgement? The working texts connect a participatory inventory, communities of practice, human learning and the evaluation of artificial intelligence tools. The proposed sequence starts with knowledge holders’ priorities.
A research pathway
- Listen and define. Identify practices, risks and needs through the Census framework.
- Bring a community of practice together. Recognise who teaches, who learns and who can review documentation.
- Observe human transmission. Record agreed tasks, demonstrations, corrections and working conditions.
- Organise procedures. Preserve authorship, versions, variants and responsibilities for each record.
- Examine context loss. Distinguish missing documentation from knowledge depending on gesture, situation or expert judgement.
- Evaluate AI as an apprentice. Check what it can reconstruct from authorised documentation.
- Evaluate AI as a teaching aid. Observe what a new person learns with its support.
- Return to those who know. Review errors, omissions and outcomes with knowledge holders and agree what can be preserved and shared.
Tegrity.AI’s contribution
Tegrity.AI connects the programme with research on documentary integrity, ambiguity and AI system evaluation. The work seeks to distinguish poorly defined responsibilities, contradictory versions and legitimate variants. This distinction makes it possible to formulate clearer experiments and recognise the limits of what an archive can teach.
This sequence describes a research design in preparation. Its hypotheses require fieldwork, agreements and validation; findings will be published as such when supporting evidence is available.
How to check a record
Three questions help establish where a description comes from and what still needs to be examined.
Comparison
- Question
- Where do the document, testimony and observation agree?
- What to record
- Note agreements, differences and what still needs to be observed.
Review
- Question
- What does someone who knows the craft confirm or correct?
- What to record
- Record the corrections and retain their attribution.
Documentation is valuable when it helps people understand a practice and supports those who sustain it.
The Institute connects documentary research, territorial memory and knowledge transmission. It relates sources to people, processes and the conditions that enable knowledge to continue.
From recording to understanding
A photograph can show an object; a record identifies its provenance; testimony explains a use; observing a practice helps make sense of decisions and difficulties. These records complement one another without becoming interchangeable.
- 01
Agree
Define purpose, participants, permissions and access.
- 02
Document
Preserve sources, context, dates and attribution.
- 03
Compare
Distinguish documents, memory and interpretation.
- 04
Return
Share a useful description with those involved.
Arts and Crafts Census
An initiative in preparation: categories, transmission, risks and needs, with separate consent choices.
ExploreFormación Integral 3.0
AI & Ancestral Wisdom. A conceptual line on documentation and technology: provenance, human review and respect for knowledge.
ExplorePrecision crafts
A documentary case for studying jewellery, watchmaking and master–apprentice learning.
ExploreFormación Integral 3.0
This line revisits how people learn and develop capabilities in changing contexts. Within culture, it explores the relationship between experience, understanding and practice: learning to do, explaining decisions and preparing others to continue. This website does not announce open courses, qualifications or certifications.
Knowledge, rights and attribution
Participation, recording, publication and reuse are separate decisions. Documentation does not turn restricted knowledge into freely usable material. Each project must define access, publication and how contributions will be recognised.
Research cooperation
Proposals may concern archives, craft history, transmission, material culture or responsible documentation. A useful starting point is a specific question, the sources needed and an outcome that benefits participants.
Propose a research project →Formación Integral 3.0 · From living knowledge to Internet governance
The trajectory, learning architecture and exchanges with Rose Luckin, Europeana, IGF and African networks.
Read the complete page →Three ways to read a source
An archival record, a botanical plate and an activity report invite different questions. Each route leads to the source and its context.
01 · Archive
A deed from 1916
The cover and folio offer clues to the record’s identity: the date, the notary’s office and the names recorded.
02 · Natural history
Vanilla in a botanical drawing
The botanical plate shows which details are enlarged to describe the plant, flower and fruit.
03 · Institutional activity
The Institute’s work
The guide brings together the Charta, the public report and the activity presentations.
Perspective Beyond / An entrance to the thought Atlas
Ideas in conversation with this page
Research & Transmission
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The Atlas connects pages, ideas, experiences and sources. This map starts from the current reading and opens a path through its conceptual neighbours.
Select an idea to read what it contributes and how it connects. Lines also connect the readings with each other.
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