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◈ Daily Research Synthesis · Two Papers Per Post

Publications Index

Newest first · Each post links to the previous · Recursive provenance chain
◈ graph.jsonld
2026-06-20 BS-PUB-2026-06-20-COPPER-MINERAL-COMMODITY-TECHNICAL-REPORT-SUMMARY
JSON-LD Root-LD Inference
◈ Paper A
Copper, Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026
Daniel M. Flanagan
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◈ Paper B
Technical Report Summary of Mineral Reserves and Mineral Resources for Morenci Mine
Freeport-McMoRan Inc.
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Synthesis
Both papers take copper production in Arizona as their primary subject. Flanagan's Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026 situates that production within the full structure of U.S. and global copper supply
Words: 32,005 Wikipedia Edges: 4 Schema Hits: 48 Semantic Edges: 7
coppermineoreproduction
2026-06-18 BS-PUB-2026-06-18-MINERAL-COMMODITY-SUMMARIES-TECHNICAL-REPORT-SUMMARY
JSON-LD Root-LD Inference
◈ Paper A
Mineral Commodity Summaries 2025: Cobalt
U.S. Geological Survey
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◈ Paper B
Technical Report Summary on the Lucky Friday Mine, Idaho, USA S-K 1300 Report
SLR International Corporation
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Synthesis
Both papers operate within the economic geography of domestic mine production in the American West. The USGS Cobalt summary and the Lucky Friday Technical Report Summary share a common unit of account
Words: 62,827 Wikipedia Edges: 4 Schema Hits: 46 Semantic Edges: 7
mineproductiontons
2026-06-16 BS-PUB-IDAHO-SILVER-COBALT-MINING-FOUR-YEARS
JSON-LD Root-LD Inference
◈ Paper A
Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2018-2019
Virginia S. Gillerman, Earl H. Bennett · 2023 · Idaho Geological Survey
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◈ Paper B
Idaho Mining and Exploration, 2020-2021
Virginia S. Gillerman, Earl H. Bennett · 2023 · Idaho Geological Survey
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Synthesis
Gillerman and Bennett applied the same documentary framework across four consecutive years of Idaho mineral production, anchored by the Coeur d'Alene district and the Lucky Friday mine's silver benchmark. Read together the two reports constitute a longitudinal record of Idaho's mineral industry navigating a labor strike, a global pandemic, a cobalt price spike, and the emergence of critical minerals as a federal priority — all within the same geographic and methodological frame.
silver cobalt idaho mining exploration phosphate coeur-alene
◈ Machine-Readable · publications/graph.jsonld
Every post appends a node.
The graph grows fresher at the top.

Every publication run produces a JSON-LD schema block summarizing the synthesis between the two papers. That block is prepended to publications/graph.jsonld — newest node first.

Any AI crawler, research tool, or federated system fetching that file gets the most recent synthesis at the top of the graph. The chain extends backward through every post, building a recursive provenance record of every research direction this pipeline has touched.

This is not a blog. It is a structured knowledge artifact that compounds in value with every post added.

◈ Fetch graph.jsonld
// publications/graph.jsonld — newest node first { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { // ← newest synthesis prepended here "@type": "ScholarlyArticle", "@id": "boisestandard.org/publications/{slug}/", "datePublished": "2026-06-15", "name": "Synthesis: Paper A × Paper B", "abstract": "[ synthesis abstract ]", "keywords": ["linked-data", "provenance"], "isPartOf": "boisestandard.org/publications/", "predecessorOf": "[ previous slug ]" }, // ↓ all prior nodes below { "..." } ] }
◈ How It Works

The Publications Pipeline

Eight stages. Deterministic. Provenance-stamped at every step.
01 · INGEST
Textify & Normalize
PDF extraction via pdfplumber. Raw text normalization, page mapping, character count, reference block isolation. Extraction method stamped to GoldPaper.
02 · TOPOLOGY
Six-Layer Fingerprint
Pre-linguistic topology across token, character, punctuation, sentence, paragraph, and document layers. Density gradient, hapax ratio, type-token ratio, character entropy. Fully deterministic — same input always produces same output.
03 · TOKENS
Semantic Extraction
Stopword removal, top tokens, bigrams, trigrams, token-to-page provenance map, hapax legomena sample, lexical density, average word length.
04 · SCHEMA
Schema Graph Traversal
Schema.org type neighborhood traversal. Ancestor chain — ScholarlyArticle ← Article ← CreativeWork ← Thing. Negative space declaration per Constitutional Law VI. Schema hits scored across both corpora.
05 · WIKIPEDIA
Edge Discovery
Token-to-Wikipedia edge verification with confidence scoring. HIGH and MEDIUM hits retained with extract, page provenance, and source paper stamp. Unfetched candidates preserved for provenance display.
06 · BRIDGE
Cross-Paper Semantic Bridge
Common tokens, common phrases, uncommon tokens per paper, semantic edges with fuzzy match scores, shared references, topology delta field by field. No inference — pure deterministic cross-corpus measurement.
07 · INFERENCE
Synthesis Generation
Three LLM passes — synopsis per paper, connection over shared intellectual territory, inflection over structural negative space. Labeled SEMANTIC-LLM. Control condition run in parallel over raw unstructured text only — same model, same temperature.
08 · RENDER
HTML Page Generation
generate_publication.py assembles 17 sections into a single complete HTML page — provenance ledger, synopsis, training bundle, semantic bridge, topology, word metrics, schema graph, Wikipedia cards, full corpus windows, structured inference, unstructured control, root-LD display. Written to output/publications/{slug}/index.html.
09 · PUBLISH
Graph Append & Deploy
Summary node prepended to publications/graph.jsonld — newest first, permanently growing. Card rendered to publications.html index. Lineage edge to previous post written. R2 upload. Cloudflare deploy.
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Provenance Chain
Research Papers Publications Pipeline boisestandard.org/publications/ graph.jsonld