Keep the core neutral
Validation, search, integrity checks, bounded context, and local text handling remain reusable.
TOSHOKANN / FOUNDATION RECORD 000
Toshokann is a software foundation for creating your organization's digital library or archive. Organize guides, policies, research, or historical records into a searchable collection, with your own name, categories, and purpose.
Many institutions · one foundation
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Foundation register
Toshokann supplies the mechanics. Each derivative supplies the identity, collection, stewardship, access policy, and purpose.
The threshold
Knowledge systems do not have to resemble dashboards. Toshokann is designed as infrastructure for stewardship: precise enough for machines, legible enough for people, and open to the culture of each institution that extends it.
Validation, search, integrity checks, bounded context, and local text handling remain reusable.
Names, taxonomies, collections, workflows, providers, and governance belong to the derivative.
Integrity is enforced by the core; authority, access, retention, and release policy remain deliberate choices.
Finding aid
Each volume answers one question. Start wherever your work begins.