A register of objects and the accounts attached to them.
Objects arrive with stories. The register writes both down, and keeps them apart.
Every object entered here receives a permanent number and a file. Inside that file, two blocks are kept strictly separate. Asserted holds what people say about it, each account under its own code. Recorded holds what the register has established or received with the object: materials, dates, the grounds the accounts rest on, and what weighs against them.
The register does not decide whether any account is true. It records that the account was made, what it rests on, and what counts against it. Each entry carries three figures that are never combined: how grave the claim is, what the evidence for it amounts to, and whether the object can be traced to the event it is named for. Readers weigh the rest.
Objects belonging to the register itself are held to the same rules and are marked as such on their own pages.
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Submitting an object
The register accepts accounts of objects from anyone. Most objects stay where they are: the register asks for a description and a history, not for the object itself.
A submission is read, not published. If it is entered into the register it receives a number, and you are told what that number is.