IV · STANDARDS

Open specifications. Implementation-independent.

Standards are the institution's primary output. They are published, versioned, and open to comment.

An Unincorporated Media standard is a document, not a piece of software. Software is one possible implementation. The document is the record.

  1. UM-STD-001Institutional RecordDraft · 2026-Q2. Specification for durable, citable institutional records.
  2. UM-STD-002Open Citation FormatWorking draft · 2026-Q3.
  3. UM-STD-003Operator Conduct StandardOutline · 2026-Q4.
  4. UM-REG-001Operator RegistryReference registry of institutions operating against UM standards.
  5. UM-REG-002Standards IndexIndex of all published specifications with stable identifiers.